Category Archives: Hermeneutics

Each denomination has its own blue parakeets. McKnight explains that once while watching birds in his backyard he saw a blue parakeet fly in and land among the sparrows. He thought surely the parakeet had escaped from someone’s home and … Continue reading →

Scot McKnight, whom I’ve blogged about before (under “Should We Be Emerging?” and “Ironic Faith”), has recently published an excellent book on hermeneutics called The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible. It’s an introduction only, but it presents … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading Scot McKnight’s The Blue Parakeet, on hermeneutics. I’ve really just started, but I have to comment on a weird coincidence between something McKnight says and something I heard on the Ray Vander Laan “Faith Lessons” DVD in … Continue reading →

“Inerrant” Now denominations have split over the meaning of the non-Biblical word “inerrant.” While many pretend that it’s a black-and-white question, it’s really filled with shades of gray, so that many people who claim to believe the Bible to be … Continue reading →

When we discuss inerrancy, it’s critical that we avoid treating some very different ideas as the same. There are, in fact, very many positions within the not-inerrant camp, some of which are indeed heresy and some of which, I think, … Continue reading →

My concern with this commentary is that it opens a controversy that could deepen the division the Churches of Christ are already struggling with. Indeed, it could even open up an entirely new split. I think, however, that division over … Continue reading →