Dru Johnson

This response to the symposium participants includes deep appreciation for their engagement with Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments. Esther Meek, Dolores Morris, and R. T. Mullins offer helpful insights, correctives, and questions about Biblical Philosophy. They also extended the project to shed light in other philosophical and theological domains. Ultimately, Dru Johnson asks how much of a revolution in philosophical style is required if one were to appropriate the fullness of his suggestions in the book.

The philosophy origins story often begins in the sixth century, in Greece, and in the mind. Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments reassesses that story to justify new side-by-side comparisons between Hellenic and Hebraic philosophical styles. The Hebrew Bible represents a sophisticated philosophical method worthy of putting in league with the Aegean traditions that developed centuries later. In this analysis, the Hebrew philosophical style starts in Asia, in the Iron Age, and in the social body of Israel. As Christian philosophers, the touchpoint for the Christian philosophical tradition may require adjustment in light of the philosophical reasoning of the Hebrew Bible extending into the New Testament.