Tag Archives: Interpretation

Pic of the day: David Hayward’s two theological libraries

Posted on 06/02/2012 by

By David Hayward, “graffiti artist on the walls of religion.”

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Quote of the day: David Steinmetz contrasts the medieval and modern theories of biblical interpretation

Posted on 31/07/2011 by

‘The medieval theory of levels of meaning in the biblical text, with all its undoubted defects, flourished because it is true, while the modern theory of a single meaning, with all its demonstrable virtues is false.’ ~ David Steinmetz

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Quote of the day: Dr. John Polkinghorne on the first chapters of Genesis

Posted on 10/07/2011 by

‘The Bible is very important to me, but it is very important to recognize that the Bible is not a book.  The Bible is a library.  It has all sorts of different kinds of writing in it — it has … Continue reading →

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J. I. Packer on biblical exegesis and the literal sense of the text

Posted on 29/05/2008 by

‘Exegesis means bringing out of the text all that it contains of the thoughts, attitudes, assumptions, and so forth — in short, the whole expressed mind of the human writer.  This is the ‘literal’ sense, in the name of which … Continue reading →

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Jaroslav Pelikan on the Bible

Posted on 25/05/2008 by

‘To comprehend the written Bible it is essential to understand that most of the words which are now written down in it had been spoken first and, therefore, they had been heard long before they could ever have been read.’ … Continue reading →

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N. T. Wright on how Dispensationalism never allows ‘the texts to speak for themselves’

Posted on 25/05/2008 by

‘Dispensationalism has adopted, in advance, a particular eschatalogical formula which is then brought to the biblical material.  Let it be noted that I am not dismissing this move as a false one: I am actually endorsing it.  My point is … Continue reading →

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