Scot McKnight

Libertyville

Writer at christianitytoday.org

Professor for more than four decades.

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ChatGPT Confessing its Sins?

1 week ago | scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight

I found this thread over the weekend and it stunned me. Has anyone ever had such an experience with ChatGPT? Does ChatGPT confess its sins? It’s lack of honesty? And then go transparent on its process?
The Second Testament: A New Translation

1 week ago | audiobooks.com | Scot McKnight

Experience the New Testament afresh in Scot McKnight's bold translation. Typical translations of the New Testament make the biblical text as accessible as possible by using the language of our own day. At times this masks the distance between the New Testament text and modern audiences. Scripture continues to speak to us but it speaks as an ancient text to the modern world. New Testament scholar Scot McKnight offers a translation of the New Testament with a daring approach to the ancient text.
Meanderings, 12 April 2025

1 week ago | scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight

This has been a sad week for those of us who graduated from or taught at TEDS in Deerfield IL. I attended from 1976-1980, graduating with an MA in Biblical Studies (New Testament). I first taught as a graduate assistant in the fall and winter of 1980-1981, and then returned as a fill-in for two years before being offered a contract that eventually led to a more than a decade of teaching New Testament at TEDS. Some of my best students, friendships, and academic life were at TEDS.
Still The Greatest Story Ever Told

2 weeks ago | scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight

By Mike GlennI can remember the moment it happened. Even to this day, it’s one of the most holy and life-seizing moments I have ever experienced. Every year, sometime during the Easter season, the memory will come back. When it does, I will be right back in the moment that it happened, trying to breathe deeply and slowly to get my breath back, blinking my eyes quickly so I wouldn’t be seen crying in front of this masterpiece. I was fifteen years old, and my family was touring a museum in Spain.
A Revolutionary Jesus

2 weeks ago | scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight

You can either put them at the end of the shelf or give them away, but you can now dispense with John Howard Yoder’s The Politics of Jesus (for more than one reason) and even Stanley Hauerwas’s The Peaceable Kingdom. Even André Trocmé’s Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution. The book now to put at the most-accessible end of the shelf is by Jesse P. Nickel, and it is called A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God.
Invisible Jesus: A Book about Leaving the Church and Looking for Jesus

2 weeks ago | thebanner.org | Scot McKnight |Tommy Phillips |Cynthia Beach

If we stop listening when trigger phrases such as “deconstructing faith” are mentioned, then how can we remain in rather important conversations? In Invisible Jesus, longtime theologian and seminary professor Scot McKnight and co-author pastor Tommy Preson Phillips defang deconstruction. “We believe deconstruction is a prophetic movement resisting a distorted gospel. It is not a problem; it is a voice. And we need to listen to what it is saying to the church.”Why befriend deconstruction?
What Do We Need from Seminaries?

3 weeks ago | scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight

By Mike GlennLyle Schaller, the Methodist church growth consultant of the past generation, wrote an article about several years ago about the gap between seminaries and local churches. Whenever a church calls a seminary and asks for a recommendation for a pastor, the seminary will send over the best student. This student makes good grades, turns all their assignments in on time and politely sits on the front row of the lecture hall.
Let's Talk about AI

3 weeks ago | scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight

Not that long ago a friend of mine told me that his son was going on vacation to Paris. To figure out what to do in Paris, he used ChatGPT and asked it to give him a list of what to do while there. My friend's son followed the schedule the ChatGPT gave him, and he and his family loved the vacation. A couple months ago, Chris and I were going somewhere and Chris used ChatGPT of what to do when we were in that town on a Friday. It’s handy. It knows stuff we don’t know.
The Worship Wars

3 weeks ago | scotmcknight.substack.com | Scot McKnight

John 12:1-8Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
Fighting the Last War

4 weeks ago | scotmcknight.substack.com | Mike Glenn |Scot McKnight

By Mike GlennGenerals, according to the historical truism, are always fighting the last war. As soon as the last war is over, the generals retreat to the war colleges and study the tactics and strategies of the winning side and then figure out how to both implement those strategies and prepare how to defeat these tactics if they are ever used against them. Of course, by the time the next war starts, technology has changed, and inventions bring new theaters into battle zones.