This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline

theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,

Kentucky.

The Reformers and Scripture.

Those are the topics that are taken up in the new book reading scripture with the reformers

written by Timothy George who is since 1988

Been the Dean of the Beeson Divinity School where he served as the founding dean and currently also teaches in the area of church

history and doctrine.

He serves as theological advisor for Christianity today.

He's on the editorial boards of journals including First Things, Ecclesiology, and Books and Culture.

He's written many books including Theology of the Reformers that has been translated into several languages.

He received both his Master Divinity and Doctor doctor at theology degrees at the Harvard

divinity school and Dr Timothy George welcome to thinking in public.

Thank you so much Dr. Moller it's a pleasure to be with you.

Well I'm glad to be reunited with a dear friend by means of this

interview and I have to tell you I really enjoyed reading the book reading

scripture with the reformers and as much as I know you I simply just want to ask

why this book now? Well you know you I'd simply just want to ask why this book now?

Well you know you write some books because you just want to and other books because you're

asked to. I was asked to write this book as an introduction to the series reformation commentary on scripture that Intervarsity

Press is bringing out. That's a 28 volume series of exegetical extracts from the

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