by Luke Geraty | Dec 9, 2011 | Posts
Grant Osborne writes, “The root fallacy, a common error, assumes that the root of a term and its cognates carries a basic meaning that is reflected in every subordinate use of the word(s).” (The Hermeneutical Spiral, 84-85) I want to flesh out that...
by Luke Geraty | Dec 2, 2011 | Posts
As I said last week, on Friday’s I’ll be posting a variety of fallacies related to exegesis and hermeneutics. This Friday’s fallacy is found in Grant R. Osborne’s The Hermeneutical Spiral – the lexical fallacy. Remember, a fallacy is a...
by Luke Geraty | Nov 24, 2011 | Posts
On Fridays I’m going to start posting a variety of exegetical, hermeneutical, or logical fallacies. There are a lot of good ones out there and I’ve had a lot of readers contact me in the past couple of years asking about different resources that deal with...
by Luke Geraty | May 9, 2011 | Posts
In the preface of my ESV, the following words are found: “The ESV is an “essentially literal” translation that seeks as far as possible to capture the precise wording of the original text and the personal style of each Bible writer. As such, its...
by Luke Geraty | May 8, 2011 | Posts
“After the preacher knows the text for the message, the next step and obligation is to make sure that the truth of God revealed in the text is in fact the basis for and master of the sermon that is to be preached. At the heart of expository preaching is a...
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