Ethics or Theological Subscription as the Ground of Functional Christian Fellowship?
A couple of weeks ago Union University made news by practicing secondary separation (or at least what fundamentalists have been pummeled over... Read More
Homosexuality: What Believers May Rightly Hope from Their Government
I cannot compete with the vast onslaught of blog heavyweights who have all, it seems, trained their guns on last week’s SCOTUS... Read More
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 5)
Having laid out in the previous several posts what I believe may be commended as “received laws of language,” I would like... Read More
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 4d)
Having discussed two seminal axioms of language that seem to qualify as “received laws of language” (the Univocal Nature of Language and... Read More
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 4c)
Having established two axiomatic principles of language that govern the intelligible use of words (the Univocal Nature of Language and the Jurisdiction... Read More
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 4b)
A second received law of language that may be deduced from common usage is the Jurisdiction of Authorial Intent. I proposed last week... Read More
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 4a)
We come now to the heart of this series, viz., a discovery of the “received laws of language” that we as humans... Read More
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 3)
This blog post is fairly ambitious, seeking to answer two questions: How can we prove the existence of universally “received laws of... Read More
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 2)
When evaluating the truth or error of any proposed theological statement or system, there are two primary questions that the theologian asks:... Read More
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 1)
For decades it was assumed, by both sides of the debate between dispensational and Reformed theology, that the primary distinction between the... Read More