Crumbs from the Master's Table

Luther: I acknowledge no fixed rules for the interpretation of the Word of God, since the Word of God, which teaches freedom in all other ...

How shall we interpret the book of James? Among other things that could be said (say, for example, about the genre of James), here is an imp...

Speaking of how to approach the opening chapters of Genesis, Henri Blocher says this: We must approach the opening chapters of Genesis as ...

R. T. France: It may be something of a surprise to those brought up in the tradition of biblical exposition to find that the biblical writ...

"A successful hermeneutic is a consistent interpretative procedure yielding a consistent understanding of Scripture that in turn confir...

Christopher J. H. Wright on whole-Bible methodology: When we take the Old Testament history seriously in relation to its completion in Jes...

In an introductory chapter on "a literary approach to Old Testament theology" in his book Dominion and Dynasty , Stephen Dempster ...

Regarding what biblical theology is, many have commented, even lamented, that the definitions on offer abound. Paul R. Williamson proffers o...

Over at Blag and Mablog, Doug Wilson helpfully describes the task of systematic theology: Systematic theology is nothing less than remembe...

From the Letter of St. Athanasius to Marcellinus on the Interpretation of the Psalms : Among all the books [of the Bible], the Psalter has...

With great wisdom and insight, John Frame speaks to the state of affairs in doing theology today: I think theology today has become preoccu...

It ought to be said repeatedly that for all our methods and industry, it is God who must bestow light. For in his light alone do we see ligh...

Scholars are sometimes fond of saying that Paul couldn't be alluding to (in a given instance) an OT passage in circumstances where his a...

In the modern West, there is almost universally such a strong sense of progress that the past is incessantly despised or looked upon with co...

Many big fat books pour forth today on interpreting Scripture. Hermeneutics, traditionally described as the science and art of interpretati...

D. A. Carson says this about how to understand the Song of Songs: Although some have denied that this book is about sexual love in any prim...

In part 2 of  John Owen's On Communion with God , the point of departure and then the place of exposition for describing communion with ...

In Part 2 of Owen's On Communion with God and the second digression of chapter 3, Owen speaks of wisdom and knowledge in Christ.  And he...

Here is the second lecture by Dr. Vanhoozer given at Southeastern.  Hit the title for the link.

This lecture and the one following (in the next post) given four months ago by Dr. Kevin Vahoozer of Wheaton College at Southeastern Seminar...