The Theory & Practice of Biblical Hermeneutics: Essays in Honor of Elliott E. Johnson

9781942614081

Plot

Foreword /E.D. Hirsch, Jr. --Introduction --A short biographical introduction on Dr. Johnson and his hermeneutical approach /H. Wayne House & Forrest Weiland --Part one:The theory of biblical hermeneutics.Meaning-types and text-tokens: an examination of the relationship between the biblical text and its meaning /Nathan Hoff --The task of recognition, or how to read a text /Tom Bulick --Is an objective interpretation of the biblical text possible? /Normal L. Geisler --Biblical/theological arguments that lend support to E.D. Hirsch's original claim regarding objective hermeneutics /Forrest Weiland --Human limitations, the hermeneutics of suspicion, and the Holy Spirit's ministry of illumination /Paul R. Shockley --Part two:The practice of biblical hermeneutics.How is Christ revealed in the Old Testament? /Charles P. Baylis --A man to emulate: Twenty-first century servant-leader of a first-century narrative type /Jonathan Murphy --Pauline exegesis in Galatians 3:16: preposterous imposition or profound insight /Mark A. Ellis --The very right of God: the meaning of Luke 13:1-9, and criticism(s) of John Piper's view of the role of God in tragedy: a narrative analysis /Eric C. Redmond --The use of Isaiah 7:14 in Matthew 1:22-23 /David Klingler --Hot and soft spots in discerning the literary design of Luke 9:51-19:27 /Mark L. Bailey --Should we preach Christ from the New Testament back into the Old Testament? /Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. --Jesus' "But I say to you" in the Sermon on the Mount: a new Law, a new interpretation of the Law, or an old interpretation of an old Law /Stephen Bramer --Seeing the risen Messiah from the Psalms: inerrancy and insight in Acts 2 /Greg V. Trull --The significance of the new covenant in the New Testament /Alexander R. Gonzales --Acts 15 and the purpose of Acts: a model of contextualization? /Steve Strauss and Ken Baker --The Christological and eschatological significance of Jesus' second sign-miracle in the fourth Gospel: healing of the official's son in John 4:43-54 /Stephen S. Kim --Tabula gratulatoria.