Posts Tagged "interpretation"
There are two essential questions which this article will seek to address: one political and one theological. They are multifaceted and interwoven. The political question is this: How should Christians view the situation in Israel/Palestine today, where two peoples claim the same territory? How should they regard the State...
The English word “eschatology” is a fairly late theological term, apparently not put into common use before the nineteenth century. Its first use, however, appears as far back as in Germany in 1644 in the last section of Philip Heinrich Friedlieb’s Dogmatics. That section was titled: Eschatologia seu Florilegium...
Israel plays an important role in Scripture. She represents God’s people throughout most of the Old Testament: she is God’s elect nation (Deut 7:7–8 ; 10:15; Zech 2:8; Rom 3:1–3; 11:1), the focal point of his redemptive mercies in history (Deut 4:7–8; Psa 147:19–20; Amos 3:2; Rom 9:4). Because...
One does not have to be a televangelist in order to properly interpret the Book of Revelation. But it helps. Apparently. To read the overwhelming mass of paperback commentaries on Revelation written by dispensational populists, one would think Revelation is a breeze to interpret. “Just interpret it by using...
