Monthly Archives: August 2022

There are two extremes for the field of hermeneutics, or the science of Biblical interpretation,[0] to be avoided: The first extreme belief that all of scripture can be perfectly and infallibly understood from the viewpoint of the original audience in … Continue reading →

It is sometimes true that fear leads to rules and categories which abstract the specific into the general. This results in what Alan Jacobs refers to as a “terministic screen,” through which all incoming information is sifted.[1] Terministic screens can … Continue reading →