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| 送交者: 誠之 2006年06月23日23:44:00 於 [彩虹之約] 發送悄悄話 |
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總結 This discussion has been a risk throughout simply because of the aim of keeping it to modest proportions. The reader will inevitably-and rightly-feel that many problems have been left untouched. The aim has been only to establish basic principles of interpretation. Underlying the survey has been the conviction that twentieth century evangelical Christians have experienced a radical loss of direction in handling the Old Testament. One of the contributing causes is the severing of evangelicalism from the historical perspectives of the faith. This introduces a vicious circle, because devotion to study of the Old Testament is an important means of preserving the historicity of the gospel. Evangelicals have lost sight not only of biblical history, but of their own historical heritage in the Reformation. By reverting to either allegorical interpretation on the one hand, or to prophetic literalism on the other, some evangelicals have thrown away the hermeneutic gains of the reformers, in favor of a media???? approach to the Bible. The other great contributing factor to modern misuse of the Old Testament is a generation of bad habits in Bible reading. Evangelicals have had a reputation for taking the Bible seriously. But even they have traditionally propagated the idea of the short devotional reading from which a ‘blessing from the Lord’ must be wrested. Failure to gain this undefined blessing is usually seen to be a function of the spiritual state of the reader rather than of the nature of the text itself. This mentality is almost paralyzed by such phenomena as the genealogies of the Bible. Consequently one is unlikely to find genealogy texts included in daily devotional selections! The difficulties of dealing adequately with the Old Testament when his mentality prevails have been ample discussed in the previous pages. The pivotal point of turning in the evangelical thinking which demands close attention is the change that has taken place from the Protestant emphasis upon the objective facts of the gospel in history, to the media???? emphasis on the inner life. The evangelical who sees the inward transformation work of the Spirit as the key element of Christianity will soon lose contact with the historic faith and the historic gospel. At the same time he will come to neglect the historical acts of God in the Old Testament. The Christ enthroned in the human heart loses his own incarnate humanity, and the humanity of the Old Testament history will be soon discarded so that the ‘inner spiritual’ meaning may be applied to the inner spiritual life of the Christian. The crisis of the Old Testament today is only another form of the crisis of the Protestant faith. Inner-directed Christianity, which reduces the gospel to the level of every other religion of the inner man, might well use a text from the Apocrypha to serve as its own epitaph for the Reformers: There are others who are unremembered; 有些人無人紀念; By contrast, we should think of these fathers of the faith in the way indicated by the writer to the Hebrew (11:4) They, being dead, yet speak.
研讀 基本清單 創世記1-3章,12-24章。 進深清單 附錄B 團體討論問題 為了幫助我們在團體中(或私下)使用本書,以下的問題可以作為討論的基礎。團體的成員應該在討論前先仔細閱讀各章節。 第一章 第二章 第三章 第四章 第五章 第六章 第七章 第八章 第九章 第十章 附錄C (以下的章節,在自己未嘗試找出答案前,不要參考解經注釋) 1. 申命記6:20-25 一些比較困難的章節 注釋(略,以後有機會再翻譯) |
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