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The quest for hermeneutics of appropriation as a thematic approach for critical biblical interpretation

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This study attempts to promulgate a method called ‘hermeneutics of appropriation’ as a thematic approach of a scientific research. ‘Hermeneutics’ is not the same as ‘appropriation’; hermeneutics refers to a science of interpretation, whereas ...
Temba Rugwiji
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Christians and the unsaved: A Comparative Examination of John MacArthur’s and Rick Warren’s Views of People Outside the Church

Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2013
The article is a comparative analysis of two sets of sermons by John MacArthur and Rick Warren (25 sermons from each preacher) with respect to how each of the two pastors portray people outside the Christian community and how they instruct their members
Andrey KRAVTSEV
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The mysterious case of the Ethiopian eunuch: an empirical and psychological examination in biblical hermeneutics

Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 2020
This study employs the SIFT approach to biblical hermeneutics to engage a group of 24 Anglican clergy serving in Eastern Newfoundland to reflect on the mysterious case of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8: 26-40.
L. Francis, Susan H. Jones
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Book Review: Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism: Contesting the Interpretations [PDF]

, 2000
A review of Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism: Contesting the Interpretations by R.
Thangaraj, M. Thomas
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Realist Meaning

Critical Hermeneutics, 2023
The medieval Biblical hermeneutics universalizes the notion of meaning and begins a trend that reaches its peak in contemporary hermeneutics, crossing also into analytic philosophy. Accordingly, meaning conveys properties of the known object, its origin
Mirela Oliva
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Psychological type and the pulpit : an empirical enquiry concerning preachers and the SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics [PDF]

, 2009
A sample of 389 experienced preachers completed a measure of psychological type. They then read Mark 1:29-39 and recorded their evaluations of the four reflections on this passage proposed by Francis (1997) and which were derived from the SIFT method of ...
Francis, Leslie J., Robbins, Mandy, Village, Andrew   +2 more
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When faith does violence: Reimagining engagement between churches and LGBTI groups on homophobia in Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
‘Homophobia’ is shorthand for stigmatising attitudes and practices towards people who demonstrate sexual diversity. In this article, we reflect on how African Christian faith may become redemptive rather than violent in the context of lesbian, gay ...
Gerald West, Charlene van der Walt, Kapya John Kaoma   +2 more
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What happened to the fig tree? : an empirical study in psychological type and biblical hermeneutics [PDF]

, 2012
The SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching has its roots in Jungian psychological type theory and maintains that the reading and interpretation of text is shaped by individual preferences within the perceiving process (sensing and ...
Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Jung CG, Keirsey D, Keirsey D, Leslie J. Francis, Myers IB   +17 more
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Emblematic Literature as a Form of Biblical Hermeneutics

, 2020
The article defines the basic principles of the influence of biblical hermeneutics on the poetics of Ukrainian Baroque emblematic literature, which were determined by its general development trends.
N. Levchenko, Olena Liamprekht, O. Zosimova, Olena Varenikoba, S. Boiko   +4 more
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Reading the Bible in the 21st century: Some hermeneutical principles: Part 1

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015
Many books and articles have been published over several decades on biblical hermeneutics to capture the epistemology of biblical hermeneutics and the phenomenology of interpretation, communication and language in order to direct the Bible reader how ...
Dirk van der Merwe
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