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. Kevin J Van Hooser is research

professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

He also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Systematic Theology

and the Journal of Theological Interpretation.

He's the editor of the award-winning Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible and is the author of several books including

Is There a meaning in this text? The Bible, the reader, and the morality of literary knowledge.

The Drama of Doctrine, a canonical linguistic approach to Christianity. of His most recent book is biblical authority after babble,

Retriving the solas in the spirit of mere Protestant Christianity.

Professor Van Hooser, welcome to thinking in public.

Professor Van Hooser, I have to begin the conversation by asking you the one question that seems

to pertain to almost every book, but perhaps more so to a book that bears the title

biblical authority after babble that's that's after what why this book right now

This book right now. We're on the cusp of the 500th anniversary of the

University of the reformation and I've been a little disturbed to hear some people say they feel like lamenting it rather than celebrating it and one of the common reasons for that attitude

is that they believe that the reformation opened up a Pandora's box with regard to biblical

interpretation.

So after Babble refers to the babel, the pluralistic and conflict of biblical interpretations.

It's not a slam on the doctrine of scripture.

Everyone knows the reformers had a high view of scripture.

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