paradoxum

If you find hermeneutics mildly interesting then I think you'll find this excerpt from Richard Hays' book Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul  wildly engaging!  If you haven't thought about hermeneutics...this should whet your appetite!

Taken from Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul, pages 178-180:

"Bonhoeffer's direct personal appropriation of this verse from 2 Timothy is reminiscent of Paul's own way of appropriating Scripture, yet it seems to violate common sense and critical training.  How can Paul's instructions to Timothy in an ancient letter become God's direct summons to a German pastor almost nineteen hundred years later?  The dissonance between Bonhoeffer's faithful reading and the constraints of critical reading forces us to pause and address the long-deferred normative questions.  Does Paul offer a good model of how to interpret the Bible?"

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THIS WAS MY "ARTICLE OF THE WEEK".