Tag Archives: interpretation

How Better to Read Your Bible

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Mark Love

Cultural, biblical literacy is pretty poor and getting worse. I know this because the freshman survey course I teach on the Bible at a Christian college is long on inexperience. Even the kids who grew up going to Sunday School … Continue reading →

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Repost: Meaning, the Thick and Thin of It

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Mark Love

In teaching freshman about the Bible, I am constantly made aware of how odd Scripture is to them. This is true not only of the high number of students who have little experience with the Bible, but also with the … Continue reading →

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Repost: A Non-Reducible Text in the Service of a Non-Reducible God

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Mark Love

Second in a series started on my old blog to be finished here. Texts do different things. And because they do different things, they have different characteristics. The stop sign around the corner from my house only works if it … Continue reading →

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