4.45 Colin Smothers • Reading • “Biblical Theology and Theological Interpretation of Scripture”
Episode 185
50 Min
October 7, 2025
ABOUT THE EPISODE
Biblical Theology and Theological Interpretation of Scripture (TIS) are two dominant ways of reading the Bible. In this article, Colin Smothers compares and contrasts both exegetical methods, showing how readers should be cautious of TIS.
Against Heresies in Ante-Nicene Fathers: Vol. 1 – eds. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson & A. Cleveland Coxe
“Exegesis and Hermeneutics,” by Kevin Vanhoozer inNew Dictionary of Biblical Theology,– T. Desmond Alexander, Brian S. Rosner, D. A. Carson, and Graeme Goldsworthy
“An Oration on the Proper Distinction Between Biblical and Dogmatic Theology and the Specific Objectives of Each” by Johann Philipp Gabler, in Old Testament Theology: Flowering and Future – ed. and trans. Ben C. Ollenburger
Colin J. Smothers serves as Pastor of First Baptist Church of Maize, Kansas, and is the Executive Director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Colin holds a Ph.D. in Biblical Theology from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is married and has six children.
