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Hermeneutics, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Bible, CENI, Christology, Churches of Christ, Hermeneutics, Jesus, Restoration Movement, Scripture, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
December 24, 2008
While in Montgomery Alabama for a summer meeting in 1902, James A. Harding answered several questions from the “Question Box” which was available to hearers there. He answered a few of these through the pages of The Way (“Questions and Answers,” 4 [July 17, 1902] 121-123). One concerned the name “Christian Church” (which he opposed […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Assembly, Bible, Bible Reading, Christians, Denominations, Fellowship, Giving, James A. Harding, Means of Grace, Poor, Prayer, Salvation, Sanctification, Sects, Stone-Campbell, Stone-Campbell Movement |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 15, 2008
Imbibing the theodrama by reading Scripture is critical to the development of our theological sensitivities. One of the more important dimensions of this maturing understanding of the theodrama is the concept of redemptive-historical movement within the drama itself. The theodrama is progressive; it is telos-oriented or goal-oriented. Watching the movement of the drama toward the […]
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Hermeneutics, Theology | Tagged: Bible, Christ, Christocentric, Christology, Glory, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Israel, Metanarrative, Narrative, Narrative Theology, Presence, Redemptive-History, Scripture, Temple, Theocentric, Theodrama |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 12, 2008
Scripture comes to us as human literature. It is written by humans for humans in human language. Whatever it communicates, then, it communicates through the medium of finite, limiting, bounded human language. In this context, I raise only three points in this post. Much more, of course, could be said, but these points are significant […]
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Hermeneutics, Theology | Tagged: Analogy, Bible, Constitution, Genre, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Language, Metanarrative, Religious Language, Scripture, Stone-Campbell, Theology, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 28, 2008
I begin this series on Stone-Campbell hermeneutics with Alexander Campbell (1788-1866). While I recognize that Barton W. Stone (1772-1844) and Thomas Campbell (1763-1855) also had a significant impact on how the Stone-Campbell Movement read the Bible, there seems little question that Alexander Campbell was the more dominant figure for Stone-Campbell hermeneutics. Consequently, I will stress Alexander […]
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Hermeneutics, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Alexander Campbell, Baconianism, Bible, Hermeneutics, Inspiration, Narrative Theology, Restoration Movement, Scottish Common Sense Realism, Scripture, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks