Seated Upright, Fully Clothed, and in My Right Mind: Musing About Hermeneutics
For those of you who knew about and prayed for my recent open-heart surgery, I want to offer my deepest thanks. The... Read More
The Sufficiency of Scripture and Transcendental Knowledge
A few weeks ago I was alerted to a criticism raised about an old blog post of mine—a post in which I... Read More
What Should We Do with Imprecise Revelation?
A few weeks back I posted a piece on being conservative. In it I suggested that in every sphere of life there... 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 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