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Category Archives: The Blue Parakeet
The Blue Parakeet: Fixing What’s Broken
What do we learn from this narrative approach to the scriptures? Well, I don’t think the Story answers all the questions, but it answers more questions than any other one principle of hermeneutics. We could go another quarter working through the … Continue reading
The Blue Parakeet: Summary
Well, we’ve spent the last 12 weeks covering various aspects of this Blue Parakeet idea. Let me try to boil them down a bit. When we run across a blue parakeet passage — a blue bird amidst the sparrows — … Continue reading
The Blue Parakeet: Eden as Hermeneutic
Genesis 1 and 2 give the model for a Godly marriage and Godly sexual conduct. Hence, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and homosexuality are all wrong because they violate Genesis 1 and 2 — which define sinless sex — even if the … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Blue Parakeet, Christian marriage, Church of Christ Links, Garden of Eden, Genesis, Hermeneutics, one flesh, Scot Mcknight
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The Blue Parakeet: Corollaries — The Gospel Hermeneutic (the Love part)
The application should be obvious by now. Love and faith are the “interstitial doctrines,” that is, they fill in all the gaps. There are no gaps. No silences. No missing authority. It’s all there in two words. Maybe a reminder … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Blue Parakeet, body of Christ, Church of Christ Links, Hermeneutics, Scot Mcknight, Sermon on the Mount
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The Blue Parakeet: Corollaries — The Gospel Hermeneutic (the Faith part)
In Galatians 5, at the apex of his argument, after four chapters of elaborate explication, Paul declares a profound principle—one that the reader is to understand as being just as true as can be: “The only thing that counts is … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Blue Parakeet, faith, Galatians, Hermeneutics, justification, paul, Scot Mcknight
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The Blue Parakeet: Corollaries — Positive Law
We’ve worked through several examples about how this Story/narrative approach to Bible study pushes us to rethink some familiar passages. Now that the quarter is nearly over, I want to sort through some additional hermeneutical principles built on the narrative … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Blue Parakeet, Church of Christ Links, John Mark Hicks, narrative theology, Scot Mcknight
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The Blue Parakeet: The Story and Women, Part 2
Let’s skip ahead all the way to the central controversial text of the controversy – (1 Tim 2:11-14) A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Blue Parakeet, Scot Mcknight, women in ministry
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