The guys ask the right questions. They ask hermeneutical/interpretive questions assessing how we get to a particular understanding of Scripture rather skipping this step and demanding the text to tell us something. I see this as the new wave of evangelical intellectualism (not sure if the guys would agree with that).
I think American evangelicalism is late to this game- a presupposition of modernist inerrancy is not debated in most of the rest of the evangelical world. But this podcast is an excellent grappling with the right questions to place American theology back on track. Great guests, great ideas. Two setbacks however: 1. Many of the guys’ notions of authority are humanist and individualistic. While inerrancy is bad, authority is not, yet it often seems that the guys place Scripture’s attributes as subservient to reason and philosophy. I suppose this is a legitimate approach to theology, but it undermines Scripture’s authority to some degree.
2. It often sounds like it’s being shared from a script- But it’s also too informal to be a lecture. You can’t passively listen.
Bottom line- listen to this podcast if you’re an American evangelical because it will ask the question you never knew needed to be asked.
