Preface “Ancient Scriptural Interpretation” – Vorwort „Antike Schriftauslegung“

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-8
Keyword(s):  
Scriptural Interpretation

C. S. Lewis’s Use of Scripture in the ‘Liar, Lunatic, Lord’ Argument

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-66
Author(s):  
Leslie Baynes
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Scriptural Interpretation ◽  
The Liar

C. S. Lewis’s ‘Liar, Lunatic, Lord’ argument elicits important questions about Jesus and scriptural interpretation that need addressing, not least because of its immense popularity in some Christian circles. Did Jesus really go about saying that he was God, or the Son of God, or that he had always existed? After examining the biblical record, must one conclude that Jesus was either a liar, a lunatic, or God? Are there really no alternatives? The point of this paper is most emphatically not to attempt to disprove Jesus’ divinity, but rather to demonstrate that Lewis’s use of the gospels is insufficient to prove it. The paper argues that even without deeming the gospels ‘legends,’ but rather accepting them as a reliable portrayal of the words of Jesus, Lewis’s argument falls short because he fails to put the gospels into their first-century context. He instead reads post-Nicene Christology into Hellenistic Judeo-Christian documents.

The Night Cometh When no Man can Work

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Scriptural Interpretation ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
Correct Method ◽  
The Bible

This chapter covers Mill’s final years and death. Despite wanting to live a quiet, retiring life, he was a celebrity whose private letters increasingly found their way into print, to his great annoyance. It presents his life at Avignon, including his friendship with the Reverend Louis Rey, and his annual donations to the Protestant church there. A particular stress is laid on Mill’s lifelong, Christian-inflected sense of vocation, duty, and calling. His relationship to the Bible is also explored, including his views on the correct method of scriptural interpretation. Finally, it gives an account of his deathbed, funeral, and tomb, including the successful effort by Abraham Hayward to prevent his being buried in Westminster Abbey.

Terms of Scriptural Interpretation: A Study in Hebrew Semantics

1962 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gertner
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Scriptural Interpretation ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Religious Doctrine ◽  
Divine Wisdom ◽  
The Subject

In the last centuries before the current era and in the early centuries after its beginning the major intellectual and literary activity in the realms (first) of the Jewish and (later) of the Christian communities was wholly centred in the field of interpretation. The OT, as the mainspring and foundation of all religious thought and teaching in those days and in those spheres, was the subject of this interpretation activity. In both the Jewish and the Christian world the Bible was considered to be not only holy and authoritative, but also, and this is in our context more important, the only and exclusive source of divine religious doctrine and of good ethical behaviour. Also historical events, political or religious, were seen, even foreseen, and evaluated from the aspect of this holy source of divine wisdom and planning.

Characterizing Gnostic Scriptural Interpretation

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin Busch
Keyword(s):  
Scriptural Interpretation

Abstract:Analysis of a range of Gnostic writings (the

Rhetorical Economy in Augustine's Theology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Gronewoller
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
Scriptural Interpretation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Divine Activity ◽  
Clean Break ◽  
Previous Scholarship ◽  
Divine Order

Augustine of Hippo (AD 354–430) studied and taught rhetoric for nearly two decades until, at the age of thirty-one, he left his position as professor of rhetoric in Milan to embark upon his new life as a Christian. But this was not a clean break. Previous scholarship has done much to show us that Augustine integrated rhetorical ideas about texts and speeches into his thought on homiletics, the formation of arguments, and scriptural interpretation. Over the past few decades a new movement among scholars has begun to show that Augustine also carried rhetorical concepts into areas of his thought that were beyond the typical purview of the rhetorical handbooks. This study contributes to this new movement by providing a detailed examination of Augustine’s use of the rhetorical concept of economy in his theologies of creation, history, and evil, in order to gain insights into these fundamental aspects of his thought. Ultimately, this book finds that Augustine used rhetorical economy as the logic by which he explained a multitude of tensions within, and answered various challenges to, these three areas of his thought as well as others with which they intersect—including his understandings of providence, divine activity, and divine order.

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