Bible in Motion

Bible in Motion November 6, 2013

William Webb, in his Women, Slaves and Homosexuals, proposed what he calls the redemptive movement hermeneutic, the need to see the Bible in motion and to see where it is headed to see what a passage means. Here are two charts, his and then a reduced form I used in class. (Thanks to PEP.) If you click on each graph you can see the whole of the graph.

Since the first comment took us in a direction that will be for academics only, I propose that the redemptive movement hermeneutic has potential for explaining divorce and remarriage as it unfolds in the Bible. I sketch how to work this out in my new The Sermon on the Mount.

So, the question: Does the Bible show redemptive movement, or shifts in discernment, when it comes to permissions for divorce and therefore for remarriage after divorce?



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