Tag Archives: Biblical hermeneutics

Why Narrative Theology?

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Rick Wadholm

Within Protestantism (and more specifically Evangelicalism) there has been a tendency toward the abstractions of doctrinal confessions. Theology has most often tended toward bullet pointed statements of confession. While this has its place it fails to grapple with the revelation … Continue reading →

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The Future of Biblical Interpretation: A Book Review

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Rick Wadholm

Thanks to IVP Academic for providing a review copy of Porter, Stanley E. and Matthew R. Malcolm, eds., The Future of Biblical Interpretation: Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2013), 176pp. I offer the following review … Continue reading →

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Daniel Block on Inductive Study

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Rick Wadholm

Daniel Block offers some basic (but essential) advice to students of Scripture to study the text as primary, rather than turning to other sources first. “When you are wrestling with biblical texts, wrestle with the texts.” (see more at Koinonia).

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Biblical Interpretation Book Giveaway!

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Rick Wadholm

I have managed to acquire an extra copy of Andreas J. Köstenberger and Richard D. Patterson’s, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation: Exploring the Hermeneutical Triad of History, Literature, and Theology (Kregel Academic, 2011). This volume approaches the text via the historical/literary/theological … Continue reading →

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Playing with Gadamer

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Rick Wadholm

“What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now.” (Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method [trans. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald Marshall; 2nd … Continue reading →

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