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Biblical Reasoning (Part 2): Bobby Jamieson on Theology and Exegesis

Church Grammar

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How Do You Not Be Anachronistic While Applying Calcidonian Tools to the Text?

How do you not be anachronistic while applying these Calcidonian tools to the text? That is a good question. And I think it is an appropriate and valid question because we want to preserve the uniqueness, the distinctiveness, the sort of fullness and diversity of everything scripture is saying. There are in a sense, explicit and implicit statements of what theologians call the communicatio idiomatum - communication of idioms or properties. So that's one very concrete illustration of how theology is grammar.

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