Tags

, ,

By any standard, John Goldingay has had an illustrious career in academia. Goldingay was born in Birmingham, England to unbelieving parents in 1942. [1] After placing his faith in Christ, he answered God’s call to enter the ministry. He studied theology first at Oxford and then at Bristol. In 1966 he was ordained in the Anglican Church. That same year he met David Allan Hubbard, the former—now deceased—president of Fuller Theological Seminary whose endowed chair Goldingay now possesses.

From the time he graduated from Nottingham (PhD), Goldingay has been a veritable juggernaut in the area of Old Testament theology; he has published nearly 200 articles, essays, chapters, and books since 1972. As a result of his consistent publication and teaching on both the American and European continents, Goldingay has had an impact on Old Testament studies that is difficult to appreciate fully.

Yet, the quality of this impact is another question entirely. The following series of blog posts will offer an assessment of the major tenants of Goldingay’s hermeneutic. These posts will not explore the influences upon his hermeneutical foundation. Instead, they will identify the key features of this foundation that are operational within the scholarship of Goldingay. In the end, it is concluded that John Goldingay aims to incorporate and utilize different—and even contradictory—hermeneutical methods of interpretation.

I hope that you will benefit from this series to the same degree that I have benefitted from reading much of Goldingay’s works and interacting with them.

[1] Biographic and professional data taken from: http://infoguides.fuller.edu/johngoldingay. Cited, May, 1, 2015.