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Tables of Contents for God-Centered Biblical Interpretation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Challenge of Understanding the Bible
1
12
Christians Reading the Bible
5
5
Strengthening the Foundations
10
3
God and Biblical Interpretation
13
14
The Trinity and the Word of God
16
1
The Word of God
17
2
Communication Within the Trinity
19
1
Infinite Meaning
20
7
What Is the Bible?
27
24
The Word of God
28
1
The Bible as Covenantal
28
3
God's Speaking in Other Ways
31
1
The Divinity of the Word of God
32
4
Coinherence: God's Dwelling in His Word
36
5
Imaging
41
2
The Ontological and the Economic Trinity
43
1
Awe in the Study of the Bible
43
8
The Purpose of the Bible
51
12
Many Purposes
52
1
Triune Purpose
52
6
Christ as the Center of Scripture
58
5
The Triune Character of Truth
63
6
Language as Imaging God
63
1
Truth
64
3
Secular Theories of Truth
67
1
Truth as Analogical
67
2
Meaning
69
26
Unity and Diversity in Content
70
2
A Triad for Meaning
72
3
Depth in Import
75
1
Meaning and Application
76
1
The Divine and the Human in the Bible
77
3
Diversity in the Mode of Divine Authorship
80
2
The Concerns of Scholars
82
1
Illustrations Using Analogy
83
6
Creativity
89
1
Diversity in the Body of Christ
89
3
The Positive Role of Scholarship
92
3
Terms
95
6
Terms and Naming
95
3
Word and Thought
98
3
Communication
101
8
God Speaking
102
2
Author, Discourse, and Reader
104
1
Misinterpretations as an Aspect of Divine War
105
4
Steps in Interpretation
109
16
God's Presence Today
110
2
God's Truthfulness
112
2
God's Control
114
1
Smaller Acts of Communication
114
2
Explicit Hermeneutical Procedure
116
1
Further Subdivisions
117
1
God's Work in the Whole Process
118
3
Steps in Interpretation
121
4
Alternative Hermeneutical Perspectives
125
14
An Alternative Perspective: God Speaking to His People Once for All
125
5
An Alternative Perspective: God Speaking Now
130
3
The Nature of Alternative Models of Interpretation
133
3
Explicitness in Hermeneutics
136
3
Exemplars and Analogy
139
6
The Role of Exemplars
139
2
Using Analogy
141
1
A Triad of Attributes
142
3
History
145
22
Unity and Diversity in History
146
1
Perspectives on History
147
1
An Example in 2 Kings 14:5
148
3
Other Kinds of Connections
151
1
Classifying Connections
152
1
The Sin Offering in Leviticus 9:8-11
153
3
Central Connections and More Distant Connections
156
1
Analogies Between Historical Events
157
2
An Example of Warfare: 1 Samuel 13:5
159
2
An Example of Praise: Ezra 3:11
161
2
The Clustering of Divine Action
163
1
Grammatical-Historical Interpretation
164
3
Idols as Counterfeits
167
10
The Combatants
167
2
The Root Issue: Idolatry
169
2
Subtle Idolatry
171
3
Deceit and Blindness
174
3
The Global Distortion of Interpretation
177
18
Perspectives on Communication
178
1
Knowing God, the Author of the Bible
178
1
Knowing God in His Connection with the Central Subject Matter of the Bible
179
2
Knowing God in Order to Know the Addressees
181
1
Knowing God in Interpreting Jesus' Parables
182
2
Knowledge Even of ``Basic'' Meaning Is Affected
184
1
The Quest for Scientific, Neutral Objectivity in Interpretation
185
3
Liberationist Interpretation
188
2
Reader-Response Interpretation
190
1
Orthodox Reactions
190
2
The Pervasiveness of Spiritual War
192
3
Distortions in Terms
195
8
The Destruction of Would-be Autonomous Categories
195
5
Applying the Expressive, Informational, and Productive Perspectives
200
3
Reforming the Ogden-Richards Triangle for Meaning
203
8
The Ogden-Richards Triangle
203
5
The Roots of Linguistic Distinctions
208
3
Differences in the Doctrine of God Among Christians
211
6
Tacit and Explicit Knowledge of God
212
1
An Example with Regard to Divine Sovereignty
213
2
Conclusions About Differences in Biblical Interpretation
215
2
The Redemption of Interpretation
217
6
Rejecting Worldly Irrationalism
218
1
Rejecting Worldly Rationalism
219
1
Redemption
220
3
Bibliography
223
6
Index of Scripture
229