The Literal Sense of Scripture, Part 4
The final part of our look at this portion of MAKING SENSES OUT OF SCRIPTURE: *** What is the “analogy of faith”? To answer that let us first ask, what’s
The final part of our look at this portion of MAKING SENSES OUT OF SCRIPTURE: *** What is the “analogy of faith”? To answer that let us first ask, what’s
We continue our look at this chapter from MAKING SENSES OUT OF SCRIPTURE: *** The necessity for proper exegesis and the use of sound rules of interpretation becomes even clearer
We continue our look at the Literal Sense of Scripture from MAKING SENSES OUT OF SCRIPTURE: *** Not to mention, of course, the fact that the very attempt to “read
Yesterday, we looked at the tendency to garble the meaning of “literal” when discussing religious texts (above all, Scripture). So I thought it a good time to introduce (or refresh) my
Years ago, I was interviewed on an Irish radio show. I had been traipsing all over Ireland, giving sundry talks on THE DA VINCI CODE and i was pretty exhausted. When
This is a snippet from my book MAKING SENSES OUT OF SCRIPTURE: READING THE BIBLE AS THE FIRST CHRISTIANS DID. In it, we discuss the normative way in which ancient
Over at The Catholic Weekly, we continue our look at the Four Senses of Scripture: One of the big things Jesus emphasises is that deeds matter more than words. He
Continuing our discussion from yesterday over at The Catholic Weekly: Last time in this space, we looked at the first and most obvious sense of Scripture: the Literal Sense. But what’s
Over at The Catholic Weekly, I wanted to talk about something, but realized that before I could talk about it, I had to first talk about the Four Senses of
Yesterday, we were discussing Richard Dawkins flat-footed reading of Isaiah 7:14 and the amazingly-common notion that the Church’s faith in the Virgin Birth came from some scribe reading it, rubbing
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