Q&A#145 Who Are James Jordan's Influences?
September 1, 2019
Alastair Roberts
Today's question: "Who are Jim Jordan's sources?
It would obviously be fair to describe him as "innovative", but it seems very much that there's a chain where you have followed on from Peter Leithart, who followed on from Jim... but where did Jim learn his hermeneutic? Is he really so innovative an expositor that we can't read what he's read and see where he learned it all?"
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