This week we have a very special guest! Old friend of the show, Joseph K. Gordon (Johnson University) is here to talk a bit about his new book from University of Notre Dame Press, *Divine Scripture in Human Understanding: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Bible.* During guest questions, we hear about Joe’s Jr. High propensity for pattern-mixing and his favorite Adam Sandler movie. Then we turn to the book and its ambitious aims. Joe walks us through the many important notions crammed into the book’s title that help give him some traction on the topic. We push Joe to explain more what he means when he calls the Bible “technology” and that for which it is “useful.” In order to explain that for which Scripture is useful, Joe pivots us to his main title and the relationship between the divine and the human. Among other things, he describes how scripture can teach us that God has intended us to be historical and what our historicity means. We wrap up by discussing how his work might affect the relationship between historical criticism, theological interpretations, and contextual interpretations of the Bible.

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