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Israel’s Hermeneutical Problem
In 2 Cor 3:13 Paul says that “Moses put a veil over his face to prevent Israel from seeing the end of what was passing away.” What exactly was it that Israel couldn’t see? The answer: Israel had a...
View ArticleWhatever 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 two models (there were really no other viable evangelical...
View ArticleWhatever 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: the question of correspondence and the question of...
View ArticleWhatever 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 unconsciously use every day as we engage in ordinary communication with one another. The...
View ArticleWhatever 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 that a text can have but one signification in any given context;...
View ArticleWhatever 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 of Authorial Intent), we need to pause, I think,...
View ArticleWhatever 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 the Jurisdiction of Authorial Intent) and offering a...
View ArticleWhatever 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 to close this series with a practical look at a pair of difficult passages...
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