Brian ChilcoteMar 112 min readHermeneuticsIs The Bible True?Coffee Shop, Sunday afternoon. Behind their favorite hot brewed beverages sit two people just like you and me. One of the two is...
Brian ChilcoteApr 13, 202311 min readHermeneuticsGenocidal 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...
Brian ChilcoteMar 21, 20239 min readThe BibleCan 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 ChilcoteMar 16, 20237 min readHermeneuticsThey 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 ChilcoteMar 2, 202313 min readDoctrines: inspirationInterrogating Biblical Inspiration"We contend that viewing the inspiration of Scripture solely from the cognitive environment of print culture opens the door to...
Brian ChilcoteNov 1, 20229 min readHermeneuticsMore Colors on the Hermeneutical SpectrumHere we finish off our series on some of the different flavors of hermeneutics with a brief survey of three more major schools of...
Brian ChilcoteOct 27, 20227 min readHermeneuticsBased on a True Story! Hermeneutics Part 5Like most things involving human communication, the spectrum of hermeneutic lenses is a complex and fascinating subject. As we have seen...
Brian ChilcoteOct 14, 20227 min readHermeneuticsTwo 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 ChilcoteOct 11, 20227 min readHermeneuticsHerman 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...