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hermeneutics
9 posts
Culture Shapes What We Think is Cultural and Leaves Us All with Blind Spots
Almost everyone today recognizes that at least some texts address local situations. Most Christians, for example, do not…
Basic Bible Interpretation Principles (2 hours)
Bethel Bible College, in Manila, Philippines, hosted me for a lecture on basic Bible interpretation principles, followed by…
Mark 1:9-13 – Baptism and Testing
42-minute Bible study: Jesus’s baptism and testing (with some introductory comments on how to understand the Bible; plus,…
Experiential Reading: The Means to Embracing Scripture
Critiques of charismatic hermeneutics, like critiques of revivals, often come from academicians or seminary-trained ministers criticizing popular charismatic…
Understanding Spirit Hermeneutics
The experience of the Spirit that empowered the church on the day of Pentecost can and should dynamically…
Spirit Hermeneutics
Answers to five questions, on Eerdword: http://eerdword.com/2016/09/06/five-or-eight-questions-with-craig-keener/
Podcast on Spirit Hermeneutics
Philip Zoutendam at Eerdmans interviewed me on the Eerdcast (36.12 minutes), and offers a discount for the next…
Using Church Fathers to interpret the Bible?
Some writers have expressed the conviction that any legitimate interpretation of a passage should already appear in the…
Biblical theology: putting together the results of Bible study
Sometimes today readers start with our specific doctrinal assumptions and read them into the Bible. One danger with…