by Luke Geraty | Dec 17, 2011 | Posts
When it comes to eschatology (the study of end times), I really want to be Amillennial. So much of that position attracts me and I think I would pretty much agree with all that it states… except for the idea that there will not be a literal 1,000 year reign of...
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 25, 2011 | Posts
Grant R. Osborne writes, “Luther (in The Bondage of the Will) proclaimed the basic clarity of Scripture in two areas: external clarity, which he called the grammatical aspect, attained by applying the laws of grammar (hermeneutical principles) to the text; and...
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...
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