But can I read random sections of it to find quotes that confirm what I want it to say?

MatthewS, not sure what you are saying.

Sorry, Scot, I was making a sly reference to the “what does it mean to me,” Bible study method which tends toward an accidental reader-response hermeneutic. It struck me as sadly funny at the moment to approach a hermeneutics text with a method that would only confirm the reader’s broken hermeneutic, not challenge it, but I am afraid this sense of humor did not translate well.

What a fascinating book. Much needed. It’s now on my wishlist!

Tony rocks!
What more is there to say?
He keeps redeeming Nottingham.

The humour was appreciated here, Matthew. (Though I wouldn’t drag ‘reader response’ down to that level of random selective quoting for self-justification)
Phew, I haven’t even made it through The Hermeneutics of Doctrine yet…
Scot, any noticable differences from or advances on The Promise of Hermeneutics or The Two Horizons; or is it mostly a more accessible presentation of those and the other larger works?

This one looks fascinating.

Ian, it’s a more accessible combination of all of his stuff: New Horizons and Hermeneutics of Doctrine come to mind as now being more accessible. Quite the piece.

Scot,
It was great seeing you and Kris at Mars Hill Bible Church today in Grand Rapids, MI. For all your fame as a scholar, you preach like a well-informed, caring pastor. Your point that Jesus with a little addition transformed the whole is down-right incredible…incredibly good , I mean.
Thanks for adding to my wish-list of books with this affirmation of Thiselton’s book.

John, as we drove away I thought this: We need to have some Jesus Creed gatherings in communities when I speak.

If you come Colorado Springs way there are plenty here who would love to get together for an evening.

I am reading this book, it covers good enough for a textbook level,
more readable than Tony Thiselton’s other books. This book must be in my bookshelf. Thanks Tony Thiselton’s contribution!

I first heard Thistleton in a youtube video on Paul Ricoeur. Then again his thoughts on Jonah as Satire exposed my to a line of thinking I?d never come across before. I found his appraisal very novel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIjJb3Ap8-8 Am interested to hear/read more of his work.

Yes, long live Jesus Creed communities; and, *if* it would work, you and Kris schedule a little more time (just a little) to hang out over fun and drink and good conversation…

Oops: “fun” in comment #14 should read “food.”