Chapter
“What Bends and What Never Moves: Carrying Christ’s Method Into a New Culture” (working title). In Through the Lens of Christ’s Method Alone: Conversations Toward a Theology of Cultural Transformation.
Carrying the biblical message into a new culture.
Opening. Pastors work where the Bible meets a culture. My research on the hermeneutics of contextualization asks a practical question with deep roots: when the biblical message is carried into a new culture, what bends and what never moves?
The pattern. Creation before the fall, the cross, and the new creation are where nothing resists God. The principles at work there do not change, and they give pastors fixed points for deciding what may adapt to a culture and what may not.
Talk
“What Bends and What Never Moves,” at the symposium “Through the Lens of Christ’s Method Alone,” Andrews University, 15 October 2026.
For Russian-speaking readers
Commentary on Leviticus and Hebrews for a study edition of the Zaoksky Translation (in preparation, expected 2030).