Presuppositions in Practice: NT Authors Found Christ in the OT What follows is a brief survey of the different ways the OT bears witness to Christ, as exemplified in the preaching and writing of the NT authors. 1) Redemptive-historical Progression One of the most straightforward ways the above presuppositions is practiced by the NT writers,…
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Presuppositions that NT Authors Had toward the OT (4 of 7)
How Does the OT Bear Witness to the Person and Work of Christ? We’ve already seen that the manner in which the OT bears witness to the person and work of Christ is through a redemptive-historical, christocentric method exemplified in the NT by Christ, the apostles, and gospel writers. Now we will turn to the…
Doing Exegesis as the Apostles Did (3 of 7)
Was the Apostle’s Hermeneutic Normative? Some who admit that a christocentric hermeneutic is undeniably represented by Scripture remain steadfastly opposed to our reproduction of that hermeneutic today. The question is whether the exegetical methods of Christ, the apostles, and gospel writers are normative for us today. Longnecker answers in the negative, that the apostolic hermeneutic…
Challenges to the Redemptive-historical Christocentric Approach to the OT (2 of 7)
People Still Dissent against the most Biblically Supported Hermeneutic Despite our utter certainty that Christ and his followers read the OT as a christocentric document, scholars today still attempt to discredit the apostolic hermeneutic and erect other hermeneutics in its place. As Johnson aptly noted, “when any hermeneutic method disqualifies… the ways that Jesus… interpreted…
Finding and Preaching Christ in the OT: Introduction (1 of 7)
He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the Things Concerning himself The question “How can we find and preach Christ from the Old Testament (OT)?” can be answered from many starting points. It seems the best approach to the question begins with the risen Christ declaring “the things concerning himself” to two disciples on…
Moving from Idea to Written Draft
Imagining and speaking So you are supposed to write an essay. Maybe your instructor gave you a writing assignment. Or perhaps you are taking a test that has essay questions. But sometimes you feel like there is no point to writing something that nobody, or your teacher, or only a few people will read. Maybe…
A Discourse-Grounded Approach to Improving Student Writing
1. Introduction: Composition theory, linguistics, and improving student writing. 2. Review of approaches in composition studies. 2.1 The cognitivist approach. 2.2 The expressionist approach. 2.3 The social-epistemic approach. 2.4 Multiculturalism, the contact zone, and Bakhtin’s heterogeneity of voices 2.5 The context of written discourse: The rhetorical situation. 1. Exigence: The occasion and motivation for speaking/writing…
OASIS: Structure/ Overall Organization
Structure/ Overall Organization of the content in your paper Is your paper organized to communicate your topic most effectively? You should aim to have high quality structure/ overall organization: your paper must be organized according to the purposes you have for writing. Structure/ overall organization means arranging the ideas and topics in your paper in…
OASIS: Information Units
Information Units: Core, descriptive, and interpretive elements How much information are you giving your audience in your paper? What kind of “information units” are you using? Skillful writers use and arrange three kinds of information units in certain ways. The three different kinds of information units are: 1a) Core (narrative) Eventives [CoEV]: indicate actions that…
OASIS: Speaker-Voice
Speaker-voice: What’s your identity / role / position / attitude / tone and voice? Just as you must consider your audience’s identity, position, assumptions and values, you must also think about your own identity, as a speaker-writer, and how your identity shapes your speaker-voice. But to answer this question, you first must go back to…