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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May 28, 2008
This is a huge subject for a single post. I shall try to be brief. Warning: “brief” ended up being 2800+ words. đŸ™‚ In my first post in this series I noted a few of the modern (Enlightenment) Baconian assumptions of Alexander Campbell’s hermeneutic. In essence Campbell draws out the facts of the redemptive narrative in […]
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Hermeneutics, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Alexander Campbell, Ancient Order, Assembly, Baconianism, CEI, Churches of Christ, Command, Constitution, Example, Hermeneutics, Inference, Narrative, Patternism, Reformed Theology, Restoration Movement, Stone-Campbell, Worship |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks