by Deborah J. Shore | May 26, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(following comprises the final installation of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) In our last post, we noticed that Job as a type of Christ receives a double portion of all he had before his suffering and passes this on to both his sons and...
by Deborah J. Shore | May 12, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Fifteen of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) The story of Job has encouraged me in the face of losses, traumas, and trials. For the purposes of this series, the book of Job is a useful stopping point for...
by Deborah J. Shore | Apr 21, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Fourteen of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) Last week we briefly considered Psalm 68:11-13. Psalm 68 is rich in allusions, and those verses hold particular encouragements for women. Now we’ll look at vv....
by Deborah J. Shore | Apr 14, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Thirteen of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture. Deborah asked that readers consult the the NASB rather than the ESV for this one; it seems the ESV is favoring the LXX over the MT for this Psalm) I’ve talked...
by Deborah J. Shore | Mar 31, 2012 | Hermeneutics, Secondary Illuminations
(The following comprises Part Twelve of the Saturday series on Secondary Illuminations of Scripture.) I believe that only when our handling of the Living Word grants it both the space to breathe and an environment in which it can retain its shape, will our stewardship...
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...
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...
