St.Augustine
Hermeneutics
Lecture Series
I. How to Use the Bible
II. How to Interpret Anything
III. How to Read, Mark,
Learn, & Inwardly Digest
the Word
IV. How to Read Along:
Scripture and Traditions
St.Augustine
Hermeneutics
Lecture Series
How to
Read Along:
Scripture & Traditions
“I stand alone on the word of God…”
“Sola scriptura,”
not
“bare naked scriptura”
or
“scriptura solo”
or
“me and my
scriptura”
Of course, you are not such
wiseacres as to think or say that you
can expound Scripture without
assistance from the works of divines
and learned men, who have labored
before you in the field of exposition…
It seems odd, that certain men who
think so much of what the Holy Spirit
reveals to themselves, should think
so little of what he has revealed to
others.
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892),
Commenting and Commentaries
The Long Conversation with the Bible
“In the beginning was the
Word,” which means God is
the Trinity, you should tithe, my
opponents are heretics, and
Jesus saves.
Exposition
Application
Saying what the
whole bible
means
“In the beginning was the
Word,” which means God is
the Trinity, you should tithe, my
opponents are heretics, and
Jesus saves.
Allegorical
interpretation
Saying what the
whole bible
means
text
Allegorical
interpretation
Verses
Bible
versus
Fights
Verses
Web of inferences
Clear
statements
Web of inferences
Clear
statements
Charles Simeon
(1759-1836)
“holiness”
(hagios-)
Holiness
Saint
Sanctification
Canon as Context
The Liars Club
“Trinity”
Boo!
Canon confusion
What if there were only one book in the canon?
How does God canon his church?
For
Communion
with God
For
Practical
Guidance
For
Knowledge
Of its Contents
How to Use the Bible
For Communion with God
For Practical Guidance
For
Knowledge
Of its Contents