tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post3009850118138547585..comments2024-03-28T09:52:15.415-04:00Comments on Common Denominator: Trump Verse HermeneuticsKen Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-62465315550962943562014-02-19T11:05:57.306-05:002014-02-19T11:05:57.306-05:00Ken,
I think you've nailed the major problem h...Ken,<br />I think you've nailed the major problem here! I personally think that this is the major issue that people in the Evangelical circles have with the text when they talk about reading the text "literally". The general movement of the text, the emphasis on the person of Jesus, the presence of interpretive lenses are all lost when we emphasize "literalness".<br /><br />I think this mostly because when people are attempting to be literal readers, they're not really being literal readers…they're just finding verses that they want to promote and grab bag style picking and choosing what they want.<br /><br />I may be wrong, and I'm not dismissing reading the text assuming that it can be simply and literally read (its how I read) but starting there, we lose the big picture thinking about the purpose, form, and direction that the Bible is moving in.danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14720362416457208688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-70051257725301809462014-02-18T12:10:14.450-05:002014-02-18T12:10:14.450-05:00FYI Dr. Schenck--I most enjoy your posts on hermen...FYI Dr. Schenck--I most enjoy your posts on hermeneutics.<br /><br />Also, reading this made me think of John Frame's <i>The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God</i>, specifically his third chapter where he takes Charles Hodge to task for an "objectivist" view of Bible/Theology, i.e., treating Bible "as a 'body of facts' and neglecting the fact that is also language." Frame goes on to say: "The purpose of Scripture is not merely to give us an authoritative list of things we must believe [contra- fundamentalism] but also to exhort us, command us, inspire our imaginations, put songs in our hearts, question us, sanctify us, and so on" (78). <br /><br />Also, I agree with you--this is a real problem, i.e., "Instead, we have programmed them to come up with a thousand individual truths from a thousand individual verses, ripped from their contexts. We have not given them a dictionary by which to read the individual verses but have programmed them to see each individual verse as an individual truth. Their theologies are a loose collection of direct mandates and atoms to believe."<br /><br />The Westminster Confession of Faith has been incredibly helpful for me exactly at this point. Specifically, WCF. 1., teaches basic principle of analogy of faith and interpretation exercised through "good and necessary consequence"--and if this is actually being exercised, then theological truths will be gathered out of more than one place. My two cents.Christopher C. Schrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06342866059046731051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-52929182209195823302014-02-17T13:06:08.238-05:002014-02-17T13:06:08.238-05:00Thanks for the heads up. I've ordered a copy i...Thanks for the heads up. I've ordered a copy in the hope it will prove useful with hungry-to-understand teens.Mark Kennedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-20469296129436277942014-02-16T17:27:06.065-05:002014-02-16T17:27:06.065-05:00I've heard a little book I wrote called Making...I've heard a little book I wrote called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Making-Sense-Gods-Kenneth-Schenck/dp/0898273765/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392589551&sr=8-1&keywords=Schenck+Making+Sense+of+God%27s+Word" rel="nofollow">Making Sense of God's Word</a> is easy on the read.Ken Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-75621473476710610702014-02-16T10:21:47.101-05:002014-02-16T10:21:47.101-05:00I had similar thoughts here. This is also the reas...I had similar thoughts <a href="http://www.fether.net/2009/11/02/sound-familiar/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. This is also the reason I think the Bible should be rendered in paragraphs rather than verses; see <a href="http://bible.fether.net/xlatenotes.php" rel="nofollow">here</a> under "Format and Terminology".Paulahttp://www.fether.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-4685411305517054282014-02-16T10:11:09.475-05:002014-02-16T10:11:09.475-05:00Could you recommend a book on biblical hermeneutic...Could you recommend a book on biblical hermeneutics for the lay person?Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079387631792832786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-69825699795737992292014-02-15T21:53:48.514-05:002014-02-15T21:53:48.514-05:00At Asbury we studied about (local cultural truth) ...At Asbury we studied about (local cultural truth) and (trans-cultural truth) which I understand, however there is truth to be learned and applied if only ,the principle there of, in the local cultural truth. The scripture example discussed was 1 Cor. 11:6 and the woman's hair covering. Local cultural, but the principle of reverence and witness implied. Pastor Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15682545003151985640noreply@blogger.com