Thread by @M_Y_Emerson, Thankful to have my good friend and co-laborer at @baptistrenewal @brandon_d

Thankful to have my good friend and co-laborer at @baptistrenewal @brandon_d_smith thinking along this same grain. Check out his latest at ⁦ @mereorthodoxy⁩:

In Defense of Premodern Exegesis https://mereorthodoxy.com/defense-premodern-exegesis/">https://mereorthodoxy.com/defense-p...

In Defense of Premodern Exegesis

The fourfold method of interpreting Scripture favored by many church fathers is often misrepresented and misunderstood by its modern critics.

https://mereorthodoxy.com/defense-premodern-exegesis/

If you’re interested in more on this, here’s a post from way back in 2013 I wrote at @BiblicalReason: https://secundumscripturas.com/2013/03/05/in-defense-of-the-fourfold-method/">https://secundumscripturas.com/2013/03/0...

In Defense of the Fourfold Method

Allegory gets a bad wrap these days. If you want to charge someone with bad exegesis, just call them an allegorizer. Compare them to Philo or the worst excesses of Augustine and Origen, slap an b…

https://secundumscripturas.com/2013/03/05/in-defense-of-the-fourfold-method/

And here’s an essay from 2014 in Fides et Humilitas (journal of @cacstudies) on the fourfold sense in 1 Samuel 17: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53da1df0e4b08db6fe8f074d/t/548999fde4b0a541b2fb09d0/1418303997414/FIDES+et+HUMILITAS+-+Final+PDF.pdf">https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53...

Related to the theological commitments required to interpret Scripture well and held by the early church, this post from @BaptistRenewal from 2018: http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2018/9/24/reading-the-bible-like-the-early-church">https://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2018...

Reading the Bible Like the Early Church — Center For Baptist Renewal

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON: These three theological assumptions guided the way the early church read the Bible and formulated doctrine.

http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2018/9/24/reading-the-bible-like-the-early-church

On patterns in Scripture ( @BaptistRenewal): http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2017/4/6/3-theological-reasons-to-look-for-patterns-in-scripture">https://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2017...

3 Theological Reasons to Look for Patterns in Scripture — Center For Baptist Renewal

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON: Reading Scripture consists largely of paying attention to what is repeated and what stands out as extraordinary.

http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2017/4/6/3-theological-reasons-to-look-for-patterns-in-scripture

And @brandon_d_smith’s post from 2017 at @BaptistRenewal on Trinitarian reading: http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2017/6/13/a-case-for-reading-scripture-through-a-trinitarian-lens">https://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2017...

A Case for Reading Scripture through a Trinitarian Lens — Center For Baptist Renewal

BRANDON D. SMITH: We should be careful not to forget the God who speaks through the Bible's pages, in the Old and New Testaments.

http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2017/6/13/a-case-for-reading-scripture-through-a-trinitarian-lens

From 2014 at @BiblicalReason, here’s @lukestamps on Christ’s place in the story of Scripture: https://secundumscripturas.com/2014/06/19/christ-and-the-biblical-storyline/">https://secundumscripturas.com/2014/06/1...

Christ and the Biblical Storyline

It is a boon to evangelicals that we have so many great books on biblical theology these days. In the ruins of modernism’s historical-critical method (and its evangelical cousin: a narrowly conceiv…

https://secundumscripturas.com/2014/06/19/christ-and-the-biblical-storyline/

Me at @BiblicalReason with a series on method in 2013: https://secundumscripturas.com/2013/04/12/method/">https://secundumscripturas.com/2013/04/1...

Method

Yesterday I posted a quote from Gordon Spykman on biblical exegesis. I’ve been asked to expand on that, especially in terms of what it means for a Christian theological method. In the first c…

https://secundumscripturas.com/2013/04/12/method/

And on Athanasius’s reading of Proverbs 8: https://secundumscripturas.com/2014/02/25/athanasius-and-proverbs-8/">https://secundumscripturas.com/2014/02/2...

Athanasius and Proverbs 8

Right now I’m researching the hermeneutical foundations for the patristic and medieval use of Proverbs 8 to support the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son. One of the essays I’ve b…

https://secundumscripturas.com/2014/02/25/athanasius-and-proverbs-8/

Related: @brandon_d_smith’s excellent post at @BaptistRenewal on the early church’s Trinitarian reading is the NT: http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2017/7/5/did-new-testament-authors-understand-the-trinity">https://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2017...

Did New Testament Authors Understand the Trinity? — Center For Baptist Renewal

BRANDON D. SMITH: Biblical concepts and judgments about God's identity helped the early church formulate the creeds.

http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2017/7/5/did-new-testament-authors-understand-the-trinity

And finally (I think): this one at @BaptistRenewal on Premodern Exegesis - http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2019/11/18/premodern-exegesis-in-10-sentences">https://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2019...

Premodern Exegesis in 10 Sentences — Center For Baptist Renewal

MATTHEW Y. EMERSON: Because the Spirit is God, he inspires human authors to write in such a way that their human intention contains his own intention.

http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2019/11/18/premodern-exegesis-in-10-sentences

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