Tag Archives: hermeneutics
Making A Literal Mess of Things
I’ve noticed something. You’re pretty confident when you settle in to read, well, anything. You’re no slouch; you intend to grasp the meaning of the text on the page. Even if the author is difficult (somewhat tedious but good for the gray matter like St. Augustine) or beyond your everyday thinking (like Adam Smith), you [...]
Guest Blogger Marv : The Thousand Year Itch
I’ve been enjoying reading the online thoughts of calvinistic, progressive-dispensational, complementarian, non-cessationist, missionary and medical professional Marv also known as Asphaleia. I don’t agree with him on all points (blame it on my orneriness) but he had recently posted an extremely enjoyable piece regarding amillenial and dispensational hermeneutics. He’s granted me to feature it here [...]
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What About The Big Author?
I must momentarily pause and allow the person in the back over there to ask their question. I see that they are a Christian, just like me (the WWJD bracelet is obvious), and I must momentarily allow it. Throughout this series I’ve been treating the Bible as any other book, maybe a great book, but [...]
Motivating Factors
When someone takes to write a book they write with a purpose. Sometimes the purpose is to entertain and other times it’s to teach a theory or an observed idea and other times it is to motivate you (or someone) to act. No one writes a book just to spout words because that would be [...]
Keyser Soze, Gandalf and the Uniying Principle