by Deborah J. Shore | Feb 11, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Scripture, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Six of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) With the Reformation, changes in hermeneutical predilections were abreast: “Martin Luther (1483-1546) repudiated the fourfold sense of scripture and viewed the...
by Deborah J. Shore | Feb 4, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Five of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) Since Thomas Aquinas represents the apex of the scholastic Church age, it is interesting to poke around to see how he handled interpretation. In his Summa Theologica,...
by Deborah J. Shore | Jan 28, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Four of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) “Infamous,” you say? “I thought he was a role model.” Well, yes. But the way some have read his story has disappointed many critics. The Good Samaritan parable,...
by Deborah J. Shore | Jan 21, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Three of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture by Deborah J. Shore) Last week we started discussing Alexandrian hermeneutics. Why would Alexandrians follow Philo so far away from the core of the text as modern minds...
by Deborah J. Shore | Jan 14, 2012 | Charismatic Theology, Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Two of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture by Deborah J. Shore) In the early centuries of the Church two of the most influential theological centers were Alexandria and Antioch in present-day Egypt and Turkey...
