Are the "Christ of faith" and the "Jesus of history" in conflict? Answers vary, as expected.

Coffee Shop, Sunday afternoon. Behind their favorite hot brewed beverages sit two people just like you and me. One of the two is...

What about the bothersome parts of the Bible that depict God telling people to kill other people? How did these scenes make it into our...

Thoughts on the Authorship of Scripture We cannot be dependent on the “original autographs,” not only because we do not have them, but...

"… Jesus was the kind of extraordinary person who inspired people so profoundly that they told stories about him. As they did, they...

There's more than one way to see the Good News. Ever heard of an exophytic complex cyst adjacent to the splenic dome? Unless you're a...

Here we finish off our series on some of the different flavors of hermeneutics with a brief survey of three more major schools of...

Like most things involving human communication, the spectrum of hermeneutic lenses is a complex and fascinating subject. As we have seen...

Don't expect your meeting at a Venezuelan coffee shop to start on time. It's rude to expect anything less than 15 minutes past the...

The Great Isaiah Scroll, part of the collection of documents discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls trove is 23 feet long and contains 54...

"On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore— Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!” Quoth the Raven...

Hermeneutics is a ten-dollar word that describes the process we use to derive meaning from a set of data, particularly from a written text. More simply, its the study of interpretation .* Rendering one's thoughts into language, recording and sending it off to elicit similar thoughts in the minds of receivers at various distances from its origin is not a simple process. Hermeneutics focuses on the receiving end where understanding and interpretation take place. Our English ter

Assumptions. We make them and they make us.   Assumptions often draw their energy from stereotypes and unexamined beliefs we absorb from...