Hermeneutics
The Impact of New Testament Mystery Revelation on Old Testament Hermeneutics
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007When Paul quoted Genesis 2:24 in Ephesians 5:31, and expounded upon it thus: “This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the Church”; he was engaging in a hermeneutical process that had definite roots in Old Testament revelatory processes, as exemplified most notably in Daniel chapter two; and also, in […]
In Pursuit of a Macro-Cosmic Biblical Theology
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007To many people, the very idea of a comprehensive, or macro-cosmic biblical theology is a little strange. Biblical theology by its very definition is less than comprehensive, is it not? Biblical theology has to do with the study of the revelation of a particular era, a particular biblical author, or so on. Whatever else, it […]
Wisdom and the Whore in Proverbs 1-9
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006Wisdom and the Whore in Proverbs 1-9
Augustine on Psalm One
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006For my second post on ReformationTheology, I tried to take the essence of what I had said in the first post and apply it more specifically. How does the reformers’ Christ-centered hermeneutic influence one’s exegesis of the psalms in particular? In this post, I attempt to discover, with a little help from Augustine, the answer […]
The Reformers’ Hermeneutic: Grammatical, Historical, and Christ-Centered
Friday, March 24th, 2006To anyone who is interested: John Hendryx has graciously invited me to contribute to Monergism’s blog, ReformationTheology. Whenever I write something there, I plan to link to it from this site. This is my first post, “The Reformer’s Hermeneutic: Grammatical, Historical, and Christ-Centered”.
The Christ of the Psalms
Thursday, February 9th, 2006As evangelical Christians today, we should be ever grateful that, in the gracious dispensation of the sovereign God of history, when all the world lay in bondage under the grievous doctrinal errors of Roman Catholicism, the great reformers of the church arose to contend for the pure gospel that had been delivered to the saints. […]