Hermeneutics: truth and interpretation
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Hermeneutics is the science of the interpretation of texts. What principles of reading the Bible are appropriate for an emerging theology and how do we speak about truth in a postmodern context? |
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- Introduction to Open Source Theology
- What is the ‘emerging church’?
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- Selected posts from the past
- Synopsis of NT Wright’s Christian Origins
- Tom Wright’s talks from the Future of the People of God conference 2004 (mp3)
- Christian Associates Thinklings papers
- TREK conversation in Portland on the prophetic church
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- On Transmillennialism and Kevin Beck's This Book Will Change Your World I read Kevin Beck’s This Book Will Change Your World in response to some gentle and persistent prompting from Mike Morrell. As Mike observes, there...
- Is that third horizon just a mirage? Mike Morrell has articulated a good question about the thesis of The Coming of the Son of Man and Re: Mission. It comes down to this: Given the...
- Lk. 13:1-5 - The killing of the Galileans and the collapse of the tower in Siloam I mentioned this passage in the comment on Luke 13:22-24, but it is worth considering in its own right. First, as modern liberal interpreters we...
- The particularity of the people of God Mike Morrell prompted me initially to respond to Kevin Beck’s This Book Will Change Your World, and has now posted some thought-provoking comments....
- The death of James and the coming of the Son of man The story of the martyrdom of James, the brother of Jesus, casts an interesting light on how the early church in Jerusalem understood its future....
- Emmanuel Katongole and A Future for Africa I have started reading Emmanuel Katongole’s A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination as preparation for the Amahoro...
- One of the One of the more peculiar objections that John Piper raises against Wright’s understanding of Paul’s ‘gospel’ is that the announcement that Jesus is...
- Katongole: How postmodernism hurts Africa In ‘Postmodern illusions and performances’, the fourth essay in A Future for Africa, Emmanuel Katongole argues that postmodernism is unlikely to...
- The limited ambitions of the people of God William Cheriegate asked me to expand on the following remark in my post on Transmillennialism – not least for the benefit of those who ‘grew up in...
- Sweet and Viola: A Jesus Manifesto Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola have recently issued A Magna Carta of Restoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ, a.k.a. A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st...
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