Hermeneutics

The book reviewed below is The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible, the author is Scot McKnight, and Zondervan in Grand Rapids, Michigan, published this book in 2008. This book’s organization exists in four parts that discuss three questions and one statement, and each item stands as a subtitle in The Blue Parakeet. The first subtitle stands as Story: What is the Bible?, the second subsists as Listening: What do I do with the Bible?, the third exists as Discerning: How do I Benefit…

Who is Jesus the Christ? As my seven and five year old children would say, Jesus is God’s son. Oh, if only it were that simple of an answer. This is a question that every Christian, when they are being honest, struggles to answer their entire life. I have experienced moments of certainty when faced with this question, only to succumb to insecurity once more. For instance, my first experience of rejecting Jesus came to me after reading Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code in the early 2000’s. My sudden…

When Kubrick unleashed his final cinematic work Eyes Wide Shut in1999, like all his previous films, it was grievously misunderstood by audiences and critics alike. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), Kubrick upholds a psychoanalytic parallel between the two, as the source story heavily borrowed from Freud’s theory of life (Eros) and death instincts (Thanatos). The task of transporting the overall…

Foot washing or Humility 1. Historical cultural meaning of foot washing If we look back in history we discover that foot washing in the time of Jesus was seen as good hospitality. This was particularly true where sandals were the main footwear. A good explanation of this can be found in the New World Encyclopedia. “A host would provide water for guests to wash their feet, serve the guests by washing their feet, or even provide a servant to wash the feet of the guests. This is mentioned in…

Defining Congregational Worship The polemic surely has a clear-cut definition of congregational worship for music to be so abstractly removed from it a priori. If this definition is tested lexically against scripture, however, we find that it cannot stand, and the premise defeated. Whale believed that “worship is the only sufficient evidence of living religion” and Luther famously said habere deum est colere deum, or “to believe in God is to go down on your knees.” For such bold assertions to…

God is Real Famous scientist Isaac Newton once said “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.” It is safe to say that some people need more convincing than Isaac Newton to believe in God. There have been countless movies made to convince the existence of the existence of God. An example is Heaven is For Real; unfortunately, there was controversy as to whether it was made up in order to become wealthy. There always seems to be a reason as to why the…

Before Binford made his argument that archaeology was holding a backseat in anthropology, and needed to make a necessary transition towards a systematic view of culture, archaeology used a direct historical approach. By studying modern native cultures one could start at the top of each archaeological layer and work down (working the way back in time). Sir Edward B. Tylor represented cultural evolutionism in archaeology. He believed that there was a purpose in the development of society and…

How to Read the Bible for All its Worth: Report How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart is about ways to interpret the bible on your own and read it for all its valuation. There are many ways one can read the bible but the most common way to read it is reading the words and obeying the rules of God without fully taking it in for all of its worth and teachings. How to Read the Bible for all its Worth opens up in a comment about people not interpreting the bible…

Paul Binski uses this article to critique the popular discourse on Gothic Archtecture in regards to mimsesis, hermeneutics, and univalent categories. His exploration focuses greatly on the interaction between different styles. He argues that many scholars try to view the different styles of Gothic architecture as independent entities and fail to connect them back to…

The author of Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible is Stephen G. Dempster, PhD, a professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick, Canada. According to the Crandall University online biography, Dempster received his education from the University of Western Ontario, Westminster Theological Seminary, the University of Toronto, and Jerusalem University College. Along with his teaching at Crandall University and authorship of Dominion and Dynasty, he has…