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St.Augustine

St.Augustine. III. How to Read, Mark,. Learn, & Inwardly Digest. the Word. IV. How to Read Along:. Scripture and Traditions. Hermeneutics Lecture Series. I. How to Use the Bible. II. How to Interpret Anything. St.Augustine. Hermeneutics Lecture Series.

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St.Augustine

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  1. St.Augustine III. How to Read, Mark, Learn, & Inwardly Digest the Word IV. How to Read Along: Scripture and Traditions Hermeneutics Lecture Series I. How to Use the Bible II. How to Interpret Anything

  2. St.Augustine Hermeneutics Lecture Series How to Interpret Anything

  3. II Timothy 2:15 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

  4. II Timothy 2:14-17 14 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 16 But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene.

  5. Not Seeing What’s There Seeing What’s Not There

  6. The Iron Bed of Procrustes: Very hospitable, One size fits all --or else! (Theseus vs. Procrustes) “First, do no harm to the evidence”

  7. Assimilation (recognizing likeness) Two Ways to Stuff Stuff Into your Mind Accommodation (making room for the new) Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Cognitive psychologist

  8. Two Ways to Stuff Stuff Into your Mind Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Cognitive psychologist

  9. Not Seeing What’s There Seeing What’s Not There

  10. Tips for Seeing What’s There: Tips intro 1. Squint at it 2. Flip it over 3. Find negative space 4. Catch the Moment 5. Re-make it 6. Give up your eyes 7. Say what you see 8. Use back- ground knowledge

  11. Applying this to texts Clear and Unclear Genre: “What kind of thing is this?” Parts and Whole

  12. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. …Let him read on through brightness and obscurity, through integrity and corruption; let him preserve his comprehension of the dialogue and his interest in the fable. -- Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare, 1765

  13. Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed. there is a kind of intellectual remoteness necessary for the comprehension of any great work in its full design and its true proportions; a close approach shows the smaller niceties, but the beauty of the whole is discerned no longer. -- Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare, 1765

  14. How do you get the big picture? • Rapid • Re-Reads II. Outline

  15. As I proceeded,I began to catch the drift of Paul’s thought; or rather, I was caught by it and drawn on. The mighty argument opened out and arose like a great work of art above me till at least it enclosed me within its perfect proportions. It was a revolutionary experience. I saw for the first time that a book of Scripture is a complete discussion of a single subject; I felt the force of the book as a whole, and I understood the different parts in the light of the whole as I had never understood them when reading them by themselves. Thus to master book after book is to fill the mind with the great thoughts of God.

  16. Outline or Chart This is an invitation to try things out

  17. Outline or Chart

  18. Name:__________ Date: __________ Outline I. II. III. IV. V.

  19. 1 Adam 2 a 3 a 4 a 5 a 6 a 7 a 8 a 9 a 10 a 11 a 12 a 13 a 14 a 15 a 16 a 17 a 18 a 19 a 20 a 21 a 22 a 23 a 24 a 25 a 26 a 27 a Pre-fall

  20. St.Augustine Hermeneutics Lecture Series How to Interpret Anything

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