Churchmouse Campanologist: "Biblical hermeneutics and whole-book context
September 21, 2011 in pastor, Protestant | Tags: Bible, biblical hermeneutics, Christianity, Craig Keener, Protestant | Leave a comment
Over the past few days, I have been excerpting Dr Craig S Keener’s brief and fascinating course on biblical hermeneutics, which he gave in 2005 to a group of Nigerian students.
Everyone who reads Biblical Interpretation will learn something new. If you enjoy reading the Bible, particularly if you teach Sunday School, Keener’s course is a great introduction to hermeneutics."
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GJ - I would modify this advice by saying "the whole Bible." The Scriptures are one, unified Truth, so the best approach is to view any given passage in its context but also as those verses relate to the whole canon. The sectarians like to isolate their little "doctrines," regardless of the hundreds of contradictions established by such nonsense as denying infant faith. There is only one doctrine, as the Lutheran Reformers emphasized.
The efficacy of the Word begins in Genesis 1 and continues throughout the Bible, but false teachers blabber away as if the Holy Spirit wanders around apart from the Word. The Word of God is not clear, sufficient, powerful, and efficacious to them, but their word is. Thus the Church Growth Movement, still raging among the apostate, charges enormous fees for their teaching against the Word.
1 comments:
Luther was one of the first who gave the Protestant world the grammatico-historical method of exegesis. This is what I read, I think from a Lutheran NT scholar.
Indeed, the Lutheran approach to Biblical Hermeneutics has the view that one part should be interpreted in relation to the whole.
When I was a Calvinist, the silo approach to Biblical books became evident in me, but coming to Lutheranism, that is one of the things I had to chuck away. The Calvinistic method leaves you and stops you at the door of exegesis, they do not go further and apply the hermeneutic of the Gospel after that.
LPC
PS. I have some books of Keener in my library.
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