Just finished. As an after Barth, Torrance, Calvin, Athanasius (and patristic theology), John Webster (on Scripture) person, I would say that Kevin J. Vanhoozerโs book fits well with what us Evangelical Calvinists (after our books and my blog work) call a Dialogical Theology and reading of the text of Scripture. It is more about the encounter, transformation, and instrumentality of the reading of Holy Scripture versus the academic slicing and dicing of things; the latter often being under higher critical antisupranaturalistic pressures. This is not to say that the grammatical historical has no place, but that such a frame is only as real as the humanity of Jesus Christ is real (which has ultimate real-ness); as the veil, indeed torn, by the illuminating power and transfiguration of resurrection. I would say that KJV has put to words a hermeneutical frame that I have been engaging the text with myself for the last many decades. Although I would say, as Richard Muller has referred to Calvinโs christological reading of the Bible, that on a continuum, KJVโs offering fits with Calvinโs soteriological-extensive christocentrism rather than Barthโs principially-intensive christocentric frame of reference for reading Scripture. That notwithstanding, I donโt think these distinctions must be held in a competitive frame of understanding either. I commend, Vanhoozerโs work to you.

I appreciate this summary review in highlights, Bobby. Thank you!
โโฆit is a matter of pointing beyond ourselves to the risen and ascended Christ who intends on coming once again bodily; even as He comes to us moment-by-moment now by the Holy Spirit.โ Emetโฆ and amen.
Amen, Richard.