Interview by Matthew Claridge– For disciples at the end of their emotional and spiritual rope, processing the shameful agony of Good Friday and the inexpressible ecstasy of Easter Sunday must have had an effect similar to blunt force trauma. What does it all mean? Is this all a dream? Standing in their midst, risen and [...]
Category: Hermeneutics
Understanding how each book of the Bible points to Jesus is vital for preaching, teaching, and personal Bible Study. In How to Read the Bible through the Jesus Lens, Michael Williams explains how to read Scripture with a comprehension of its Christ-centered focus. Dave Jenkins reviewed Williams’s book. He writes: Recent years have seen an increase in quality [...]
In the January issue of Credo Magazine, Chris Castaldo reviewed David Bauer and Robert Traina’s newvolume, Inductive Bible Study: A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice of Hermeneutics. Castaldo is director of the Ministry of Gospel Renewal for the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. He is the author of Holy Ground: Walking with Jesus as [...]
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By Brent Parker – During the past few years there has been growing interest among evangelical scholars and seminarians in a hermeneutical movement known as Theological Interpretation of Scripture (TIS). The publications of books and articles by TIS advocates or practitioners such as Joel Green, Stephen Fowl, Christopher Seitz, Daniel Treier, Richard Hays, Peter [...]
Should we interpret the Old Testament differently than the New Testament? When and how should we apply a passage of scripture to our contemporary situation? Was the Bible written to us? These are questions that get to the heart of the discipline of hermeneutics. Over at Credo’s “Reviews and Interviews” page, Mark Strauss answers questions [...]
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The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture. By Christian Smith. Brazos Press, 2011. Review by Fred Zaspel Many Christians have puzzled over the fact that interpretations of Scripture differ so widely among equally devoted Christians, but few have pursued the question with the tenacity of Christian Smith in [...]
By Brent Parker One of the thorny issues regarding the task of hermeneutics and interpretation involves the problem of sensus plenior, the fuller sense. The topic has been debated among evangelicals during the past few decades, and before that the sensus plenior was controversial among Roman Catholics especially during the 1940s-60s. For this post we [...]
by David Schrock In volume 1 of Reformed Dogmatics, Herman Bavinck reflects on the multiple ways in which the New Testament authors use and apply the Old Testament. In the discussions that swirl today on this subject, it is noteworthy that he writes in favor of sensus plenior. He says, In the case of Jesus and [...]
by Brent Parker Kevin Vanhoozer helpfully points out in his book, Is There a Meaning in this Text?, that an allegorical interpretation “sees the meaning of a text as constituted outside the text in another framework: the conceptual” (119). In such a scheme, this word means that concept. The tendency to allegorize a biblical text [...]
