by Deborah J. Shore | Mar 24, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Eleven of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) My final negative example comes from a young friend who is developing a corrective prophetic voice. He was thrilled to happen upon Job 32:7-10: “I thought, ‘Age...
by Deborah J. Shore | Mar 17, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Ten in the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations in Scripture.) This error is a radical misinterpretation of the book of Hosea. In a secondary illumination mistake that probably builds on some of the same attitudes as the one...
by Deborah J. Shore | Mar 10, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Nine of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) Over the next three blogs, I’ll give you three instances I’ve run across recently where our secondary illuminations of Scripture have gone awry. Sometimes secondary...
by Deborah J. Shore | Mar 4, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Eight of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) I do believe that God can be and was so exacting in choosing the original languages (insofar as they are available to us in the earliest critical manuscripts we...
by Deborah J. Shore | Feb 25, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part seven of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) I do not believe John Locke would be inclined toward the spiritual senses that Aquinas has described (see Part Four) whatsoever, but his discourse on Enthusiasm...
