The Castle Church Door

Does St. Paul embrace the allegorical method in Gal 4? Here’s some of what Moisés Silva has to say: “Some scholars argue that the passage uses a typological approach to the Genesis narrative, but many others are convinced that the apostle is treating us here to a full-blown allegorical interpretation. After all, he begins 4:24 with the words ‘which things are spoken [or ‘interpreted’] allegorically.” We must not simply ...

Since the topic of allegory and typology has arisen, it’s necessary to define our terms. Allegory is a hermeneutical method which asserts that a text denotes something other than, or above and beyond, its literal referents. It may regard the allegorical meaning as addition to the literal meaning. Or the allegorical meaning may be the “true” meaning. For example, the allegorical interpretation of Canticles takes this book to ...

In another thread, LVKA offers the following argument for applying non-grammatical-historical interpretations to scripture, but not to other documents: “The First Ecumenical Council does not need a typological or Christological interpretation: because it *IS* a Christological statement. And it doesn't need a spiritual or allegorical interpretation either: the Dogamtical statement that Jesus is God is intrinsically tied up with our Chr. spirituality: ‘If Christ is ...

LVKA said:"And the problem with interpretation is not whether it's literal or figurative, but whether it's condoned by Tradition or not."Like the Tradition of the ante-Nicene fathers who interpreted scripture in opposition to the veneration of images? Or the Tradition of the early Christians who prayed only to God, not to the deceased or angels? Do you agree with the Marian beliefs of the earliest Christians, such as ...

I recently got drawn into hand-to-hand combat with a couple of orcs who invaded the shire of a Presbyterian hobbit:http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/some-questions-for-pete-enns/Here is my side of the exchange:steve hays said,June 16, 2008 at 6:29 pmKen Hendrickson said,“In the first place, Sola Scriptura is directly contradicted by 2 Thess 2:15, which commands that we hold fast to the TRADITIONS which were taught by the Apostles, even those which were only taught ...

[Entish: An archaic dialectic, synonymous with double-talk, spoken by Pieter Enns and his Entish offspring during the Second Age of Middle-Earth.]Art quotes the following statement by Jerry Shepherd:“There is nothing in Enns’s book that is not in a trajectory with the teaching I received from the OT department at Westminster in the 80s and early 90s, and I mean the entire department: Dillard, Longman, Waltke, and Groves. For ...