Brian Chilcote
Genocidal Joshua?
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...
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Affirming Church West Chester
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Loving God and Loving Others Fearlessly
Brian Chilcote
- Mar 21
- 9 min
Can I get Your Autograph?
Thoughts on the Authorship of Scripture We cannot be dependent on the “original autographs,” not only because we do not have them, but...
Brian Chilcote
- Mar 16
- 7 min
They Told Stories About Him
"… Jesus was the kind of extraordinary person who inspired people so profoundly that they told stories about him. As they did, they...
Brian Chilcote
- Dec 20, 2022
- 23 min
What's so Apocalyptic about the Gospel?
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...
Brian Chilcote
- Nov 1, 2022
- 9 min
More Colors on the Hermeneutical Spectrum
Here we finish off our series on some of the different flavors of hermeneutics with a brief survey of three more major schools of...
Brian Chilcote
- Oct 27, 2022
- 7 min
Based on a True Story! Hermeneutics Part 5
Like most things involving human communication, the spectrum of hermeneutic lenses is a complex and fascinating subject. As we have seen...
Brian Chilcote
- Oct 25, 2022
- 6 min
Unwritten Rules and the Bible- Hermeneutics 4
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...
Brian Chilcote
- Oct 20, 2022
- 6 min
Wellhausen's Big Idea
The Great Isaiah Scroll, part of the collection of documents discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls trove is 23 feet long and contains 54...
Brian Chilcote
- Oct 14, 2022
- 7 min
Two More Hermeneutics
"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...
Brian Chilcote
- Oct 11, 2022
- 7 min
Herman Who? An Introduction to Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is a ten-dollar word that describes how we derive meaning from texts. Rendering thoughts into language, recording and...
Brian Chilcote
- Oct 3, 2022
- 7 min
The Trouble with Assumptions
Assumptions aren't all bad. Of course, they sometimes draw their energy from unfair stereotypes or unexamined beliefs we unconsciously...
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