Category Archives: hermeneutics

More on the relationship between OT and NT

By ElShaddai Edwards | September 21, 2008

As a bit of a followup to the quiz I linked to in my previous post, I’ll point you to a post written a few days ago that I’ve just discovered. Written by Ray McCalla on his blog, Sinaiticus, the article is titled “More Than One Way To Skin A Cat” and addresses the question, [...]

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Salvation within the functional hermeneutic

By ElShaddai Edwards | May 1, 2008

Building on the previous post about viewing the creation account of Genesis 1 from a functional hermeneutic rather than a structural perspective, I want ask some parallel questions, fast forwarding from Genesis to our life today.
The functional hermeneutic suggests that the things we view as structural objects to Creation, e.g. light, water, plants, animals, all [...]

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Wilhelm Furtwängler and the art of interpretation

By ElShaddai Edwards | March 17, 2008

Sean Winter has posted a brilliant clip of noted German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler giving a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in 1942 on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday:
There is huge debate about this performance, and to watch it is to be disturbed, but it seems to me that Furtwängler is actually pressing the score to [...]

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