An International Journal for Students of Theo- logical and Religious Studies Volume 46 Issue 2 August 2021 EDITORIAL: A Biblical Theology of Education 257 Exclusion from the People of God: An 336 by D. A. Carson Examination of Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in 1 Corinthians 5 by Jeremy Kimble STRANGE TIMES: No Longer Humans, but 269 Angels (and Demons) by Daniel Strange Diognetus and the Parting of the Ways 354 by Florenc Mene Testimonies of Faith and Fear: Canaanite 279 Responses to YHWH’s Work in Joshua Beginning at the End of All Things: Abraham 366 by Cory Barnes Kuyper’s and Klaas Schilder’s Eschatological Visions of Culture by Dennis Greeson The Bows of the Mighty Are Broken: The “Fall” 290 of the Proud and the Exaltation of the Humble Stories that Gleam like Lightning: The 375 in 1 Samuel by Justin Jackson Outrageous Idea of Christian Fiction by Hans Madueme and Robert Erle Barham A Two-Dimensional Taxonomy of Forms for 306 the NT Use of the OT by Douglas S. 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As part of arranging book reviews, the book review editors will supply book review guidelines to reviewers. Themelios 46.2 (2021): 257–68 EDITORIAL A Biblical Theology of Education — D. A. Carson — D. A. Carson is emeritus professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and cofounder and theologian-at-large of The Gospel Coalition. he topic at hand—a biblical theology of education—is like an oversized, under-inflated beach ball: you can’t miss it, and it’s easy to swat around, but it’s very difficult to control.1 Nevertheless, let me try to impose at least a little order on the topic. Begin with the Texpression “biblical theology.” Although there are many variations, today’s use of the expression commonly conjures up one of two ideas. First, whereas “systematic theology” tends to order its treatment of the theology of the Bible along logical and hierarchical lines (see, for example, a standard systematic theology like that of Bavinck or a more popular one like that of Grudem), biblical theology tends to order its treatment of the theology of the Bible along temporal lines, focusing on the contribution of each book and corpus along the path of the Bible’s storyline. The distinction between systematic theology and biblical theology is never absolute, of course, but it is strong enough to warrant recognition. Thus, a biblical theology of, say, the temple, traces out temple themes in the early chapters of Genesis, follows their trajectories all the way to the Apocalypse, and observes how these trajectories are not random but interrelated, constituting the warp and woof of interwoven themes, unfolding across time. Similarly, one can speak of the biblical theology of creation/new creation, of priesthood, of exile, and of much more. But in this sense of “biblical theology,” can one legitimately speak of a biblical theology of education? I don’t think so. It’s not as if there is a theological development of the theme of education from one end of the canon to the other. Of course, one could cheat a little and insist that all of God’s self- disclosure across human history constitutes an education of those humans. In that sense, education is biblical theology. But no one uses the term “education” today in precisely that way. Consider the definition of education advanced by Wikipedia (“Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, and habits”). This static vision of education is not following the storyline of redemptive history. To put it another way, it is difficult to discern that the canon provides developing reflection on education. So, in this sense of “biblical theology” we may reasonably doubt that there is such a thing as a biblical theology of education. 1 This is a slightly revised version of a paper delivered at the International Alliance for Christian Educa- tion (IACE) annual conference on 3 February 2021 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and tweaked in light of questions and comments at the conference, and in light of suggestions made by the editor of Themelios. 257 Themelios A second common contemporary meaning of “biblical theology” is theology that is found in or based upon the Bible—a way of referring to systematic theology that is biblically faithful. On this view, our title makes education a subset, in effect, of systematic theology. This is conceptually less problematic. To talk of the biblical theology of education, in this sense of biblical theology, is akin to talking about the biblical theology of ecology or the biblical theology of angels. Ecology, angels, and, I would say, education, are not central biblical themes akin to Christology, atonement, and theology proper, but enough is said about each of them that if we assemble these bits carefully and inquire as to how they fit into the Bible as a whole, it is surprising how much can be learned. So, let us assemble some of the bits and pieces of what the Bible says about education. Then we shall briefly survey how those bits and pieces have worked themselves out in a handful of historical arrays, before we explore the peculiar challenges of putting these pieces together at the beginning of the twenty-first century, in the Western world. 1. Observations on Some Biblical