Marginal Christianity

Thomas Torrance on Reading the Bible The esteemed Scottish theologian Thomas Torrance developed a way or path for reading and interpreting the Bible that essentially involves what I calling a "Lifestyle" of Biblical Interpretation. These are not the technical skills we use to better understand scripture but an approach that contextualizes the use of these tools into a living relationship with God. This Lifestyle of Biblical Interpretation according to Torrance involves a fourfold movement of Following, Penetrating, Indwelling, and Listening. It strikes me that, though Torrance does not mention this, this process is almost identical to that of Lectio Divina (Reading, Meditating, Praying, and Contemplating). This encourages me to believe this process has great potential to integrate heads and hearts in a seamless way not possible with other approaches.    Follow -the biblical storyline which establishes and governs its meaning  -allow the text ...

Herma and Herman Neutics on a Lifestyle of Biblical Interpretation The esteemed Scottish theologian Thomas Torrance developed a way or path for reading and interpreting the Bible that essentially involves what we are calling a "Lifestyle" of Biblical Interpretation. these are not the technical skills we use to better understand scripture but an approach that contextualizes the use of these tools into a living relationship with God. This Lifestyle of Biblical Interpretation involves a fourfold movement of Following, Penetrating, Indwelling, and Listening. It struck us that, though Torrance does not mention this, this process is almost identical to that of Lectio Divina (Reading, Meditating, Praying, and Contemplating). this encourages Herma and I to believe this process has great potential to integrate heads and hearts in a seamless way not possible with other approaches.    Following -the biblical storyline which establishes and governs its meaning  ...

On the importance of the concept of the "homoousion" ("of one being") in Christian Theology: The homoousion , then ... is of staggering significance. It crystallizes the conviction that while the incarnation falls within the structure of our spatio-temporal humanity in this world, it also falls within the Life and Being of God. Jesus Christ is thus not a mere symbol, some representation of God detached from God, but God in his own Being and Act come among us, expressing in our human form the Word which he is eternally in himself, so that in our relations with Jesus Christ we have to do directly with the ultimate reality of God. As the epitomized expression of that fact, the homoousion is the ontological and epistemological linchpin of Christian theology. With it, everything hangs together; without it, everything ultimately falls apart. 6