Tag: hermeneutics

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One Story House

When you arrive at my house you will immediately notice something about it. It is a double level ranch—that is, a building that all the rooms are contained on one floor yet there’s two floors. It’s a structural oddity. When you enter you will notice that the foyer resides on a central meeting place of two staircases…one that goes up and one that goes down. That strange structural feature would surprise you in a hospital or an office building but it doesn’t surprise you so much here. Especially since you can see the upper living room is right above your head on the other side of an oak wood railing.

Tags dispensationalism, hermeneutics, pattern, strucutre, thought-flow

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Love Letters

Some years ago a young lady wrote me love letters. The letters weren’t confessions of her love: they were just mail exchanged between friends (me and her) for years. It took a while for them to feel like love letters but when they did I became fanatical with my mail.

Tags hermeneutics, writing

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Reader’s Underwear

As a reader you are like a person on vacation. You can visit anywhere in the world but no matter where you go you will, by the nature of being you, bring your luggage. You’re luggage contains many things you find important (like your best shoes) but also things that you automatically assumed must come on your trip (like underwear). Even though you know most people won’t see some of those later things (the underwear) you assumed that they would go on the trip with you. On vacation you also properly assume other people have that same information. No one in the civilized world goes around thinking "Maybe that person isn’t wearing underwear". Or at least we hope.

Tags hermeneutics, logic, reading

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Unwrapped Reads

It’s morning, it’s early and it’s Christmas. Vanilla and ginger still adorns the air after a week of Mom’s baking. You step onto the floor that shivers with winter and snuggle into your cozy slippers before hurrying out of your room, down the hallway and into the living room where your family’s Christmas tree stands. Beneath it in brilliant bursts of gold and red and green with dashes of blue and flashes of white are wrapped presents—some of them for you, some for your siblings.

Tags hermeneutics, logic, reading, understanding