The ESV Study Bible: A Confessional Lutheran Response - Cyberbrethren: A Lutheran Blog, 10/15/08:
While the ESV Study Bible will, no doubt, serve well as a reference resource, it certainly can not, due to its very serious theological flaws, serve as the study Bible of choice for Lutheran Christians interested in a study Bible that is genuinely faithful to the whole counsel of God and to those truths as properly set forth in the Lutheran Confessions.
The ESV Study Bible does not properly distinguish between Law and Gospel.
However, there is a Reformed emphasis on covenant theology. The article stalls when it states, “The OT is thus the story of the one true Creator God, who called the family of Abraham to be his remedy for the defilement that came into the world through the sin of Adam and Eve” (p. 30). Israel rather than Christ remains the focus of the article. So, salvation is described as sanitation rather than justification.
Many of the notes on Messianic prophecies are hesitant to affirm that Jesus is the undisputed fulfillment of OT expectations and that the NT interpretation of the passages is normative.
They would also affirm that the NT is the normative interpretation of the OT. But by leaving readers in the realm of opinion, the notes leave as an open question whether or not the NT writers were correct, and whether the OT was in fact fulfilled by Christ.
Rm 11:26. A dispensational view is asserted.
2 comments:
Hey Teresa,
This is off topic I know, but I'm itching to take a look at the new revised Grail Psalter, any idea where I might be able to see that?
I glanced at this comment quickly last night and thought it said "Braille" ...
Not that I'm much help regarding a Grail psalter. I suppose you are speaking of this: "US Bishops to consider new Psalter":
"Revisions to the Grail Psalter using inclusive language were published in the 1980s and 1990s, but these revisions were not approved for liturgical use despite their adoption by some religious communities. Inasmuch as it is faithful to Liturgiam authenticam, the Revised Grail Psalter that the bishops will consider in November is altogether different from previous revisions of the Grail Psalter."
As usual, you likely know more. Please share. I'd love to keep up with this stuff but I can't always.
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