Trinity Institute – Help from our friends

It is a joy to hear about the Trinity Institute and the involvement of Peter Leithart and Jim Jordan. Peter brings a powerful mind and a pastor’s heart to his calling to educate and train a new generation for pastoral ministry. Jim adds a remarkably creative mind and his penetrating insight into the Scriptures. Protestants, in my judgment, have done an excellent job of grammatical analysis of the biblical texts. We have not, however, been as successful at reading them historically, that is, through the imaginative world of the ancient recipients of these sacred texts. Peter and Jim are rare and bright exceptions, combining a scientific and a poetic imagination that is aware of the magnificence and the beauty of the texts of Holy Scripture. If you desire to know the word of God and to learn how to communicate it powerfully, with a sense of the awe of its beauty, I can think of no better mentors today whom you could find. I would highly encourage you to take the opportunity to study under these master craftsmen in scriptural interpretation.

Warren Gage, Professor of Old Testament, Knox Theological Seminary, Fort Lauderdale, Florida