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(Say the Jesus Creed<\/a> morning and evening during Lent.)
\nAnthony Thiselton\u2019s new book, Hermeneutics of Doctrine<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>, written for experts, continues a list of seminal, profound, penetrating, if not esoteric at times, writings on hermeneutics. In this book, Thiselton applies his mastery of hermeneutics to doctrine.
\nYou can link here to see Thiselton\u2019s books<\/a> $\"\"$ .
\nHe examines a variety of topics through the lens of hermeneutics in this book \u2014 including the hermeneutics of creation, image of God, sin, cross, work of Christ, atonement, Holy Spirit, Trinity, church and ministry, word and sacraments, and eschatology.
\nWe won\u2019t be blogging through this book, mostly because I\u2019m not sure how to do it \u2026 and how many of us would want to engage this tome on hermeneutics is probably limited. So, here are some highlights for me:
\n1. A clarification of how seeing belief as \u201cdispositional\u201d instead of just \u201cmental\u201d opens up both passages in the Bible (say 1 John or Jonah) and how we have sought to explain what it means to \u201cconfess\u201d Christian faith. Disposition deals with the expectations of confession and behaviors \u201cif\u201d one genuinely does believe.
\n2. An emphasis on doctrine finding shape only in community.
\n3. That doctrine is formational and not just informational. This is the big impact of this book \u2026 and again everything by Thiselton is thick and brilliant.
\n4. He complains way too often about American theology. There should be more appreciation of cultural difference and that his own context is shaping that complaint; in addition, his reduction of American theology to pragmatism or to simple alternatives is itself a reductionism, not the least because it\u2019s also found over on his side of the water.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"