Why are some denominations ordaining women as pastors and deacons? Because of an evangelical feminist hermeneutic. We continue our review of Paul W. Felix’s discussion of seven principles of evangelical feminist hermeneutics which contradict evangelical grammatical-historical hermeneutics. The first two are covered in the first post. 1. The Principle of Ad Hoc Documents 2. The Principle [...]
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The Hermeneutics of Evangelical Feminism, Part 2
Posted: June 27, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Analogy of Faith, Bernard Ramm, D. M. Scholer, Evangelical Feminism, Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New Versus the Old, Feminist Movement, Gordon W. Fee, J. Robertson McQuilkin, Ordination of women, Paul W. Felix, Robert Thomas, Roman Catholic Church, Slavery
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The Hermeneutics of Evangelical Feminism, Part 1
Posted: June 27, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Chritians for Biblical Equality, Evangelical feminist hermeneutics, Evangelical Hermeneutics, Gordon Fee, Hermeneutics, Paul W. Felix, religious feminist, Robert K. Johnson, Robert Thomas, Secular feminists, Sr.
The hermeneutics of evangelical feminist stands in direct contrast to evangelical grammatical-historical hermeneutics. Paul W. Felix Sr. highlights these radical differences in chapter 13 in Robert Thomas’ Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New Verses the Old. Felix defines an evangelical feminist as “one who has a high view of Scripture and believes the Bible teaches the full [...]
Hermeneutics and Capital Punishment, Part One
Posted: June 24, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Basic Bible Interpretation, Capital Punishment, Christopher Simmons, Hermeneutics, John Piper, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Psychologist, Roy Zuck, Shirley Cook, The Supreme Court, The Washing Post
The Washington Post reported on March1, 2005 that “The Supreme Court abolished capital punishment for juvenile offenders yesterday, ruling 5 to 4 that it is unconstitutional to sentence anyone to death for a crime he or she committed while younger than 18.” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion. The case that provoked this ruling concerned almost [...]
How Does the New Testament Use the Old Testament, Part Two
Posted: June 19, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Arnold G. Fruchenbaum, Dwight Pentecost, Hermeneutics, Prophecy, Robert Thomas, Sensus plenior
The New Testament uses the Old Testament prophecies in one of four ways. We will discuss these four New Testament categories into which all Old Testament prophecies are used. Three of the four involve what Robert Thomas calls Inspired Sensus Plenary Application (ISPA) without violating the original and single interpretation of the Old Testament prophecies. [...]
How Does the NT Use the OT?
Posted: June 17, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Arnold G. Fruchenaum, Bernard Ramm, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, F. F. Bruce, Hermeneutics, Milton S. Terry, Robert Thomas, Roy Zuck, Sensus plenior
There is a Biblical and Unbiblical sensus plenior. We will begin with the unbiblical sensus plenior. The interpretation principle of “one interpretation, many applications” is an integral ingredient of classic hermeneutics. In contrast to this principle is sensus plenior or fuller or multiple meanings of a Biblical text. As we observed in our last post, [...]
Interpretation Principle of Single Meaning, Part 3
Posted: June 14, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Andrea Fernandez, Elliot Johnson, Hermeneutics, many applications, One interpretation, Raymond E. Brown, Robert Thomas, Roy Zuck, Sensus plenior, Single meaning, Walter Kaiser
Roy Zuck discusses the single meaning of a text and sensus plenior or fuller meaning of a text of Scripture. Zuck begins his discussion by asking, “Do the Scriptures have single meanings or multiple meanings?” (Basic Bible Interpretation, page 273). He follows this question with the four views. 1. The first view, held by Walter Kaiser, [...]
Interpretation Principle of a Single Meaning, Part 1
Posted: June 11, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Allegorizing, Augustine, Basic Bible Interpretation, Bernard Ramm, Biblical Hermeneutics, Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New Versus the Old, Historical-grammatical method of hermeneutics, Milton S. Terry, Protestant Biblical Interpretation, Robert Thomas, Roy Zuck
The Single Meaning Principle is stated well in the words of Bernard Ramm, “Interpretation is one, application is many” (Protestant Biblical Interpretation, 113). In chapter three “Bible Interpretation—Then and Now” Zuck surveys the different methods of interpretation throughout church history. The different approaches are literal, allegorical, traditional, and rationalistic, and subjective. What separates all the approaches [...]
The New and Confusing Definitions in Hermeneutics, Part 3
Posted: June 7, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Bernard Ramm, D. Stuart, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, G. D. Fee, Kenosis Theory, Roy Zuck, Terry S. Milton
There is danger of integrating current culture into the process of interpreting Scripture. Terry S. Milton, Bernard Ramm, and Roy Zuck define hermeneutics as science and art. In other words, hermeneutics is rules of interpretation and the application of the rules, no more, no less. As we saw in the last post, G. D. Fee and [...]
New and Confusing Definitions in Hermeneutics, Part Two
Posted: June 4, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Bernard Ramm, Douglas Stuart, G. R. Osborne, Gordon Fee, Hermeneutics, How to Read the Bible for all its Worth, Melton S. Terry, Roy Zuck, The Hermeneutical Spiral
Another important traditional work in hermeneutics is Protestant Biblical Interpretation: A Textbook of Hermeneutics by Bernard Ramm. His work was a textbook in many evangelical schools and as proof three editions appeared in the late twentieth century. Like Roy Zuck and Milton S. Terry, Ramm defines hermeneutics as both science and art: “Hermeneutics is the science [...]
