Category Archives: Hermeneutics

You’ve been very naughty

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

This isn’t long enough for a full post, but one of the more interesting additions to the Baptist Faith and Message after the fundamentalist takeoever of the Southern Baptist Convention was the following (adopted in 1998): Parents are to teach … Continue reading →

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Red Letter Law, Part II

Posted on July 22, 2010 by

My first post in this series explored how the fundamentalist hermeneutic (approach to interpreting the Bible) is not particularly conservative and certainly not “literal.”  This is because the fundamentalist claims of “inerrancy” and “authority” (words I certainly don’t object to … Continue reading →

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Red Letter Law, Part I

Posted on July 19, 2010 by

Hermeneutics – the method of interpreting texts – is an unfairly neglected element of popular Christian theology.  So much of what the Bible says (or doesn’t say) depends on how you read it.  And in the popular imagination there are … Continue reading →

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