Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” is a film I had watched years ago in high school, and while it did leave me slightly traumatized, I couldn’t exactly pinpoint what the film was about. After a recent ...
For a number of years now learned interpreters of Scripture have been telling us that the Song of Songs is (primarily) about human love. I put the word primarily in parentheses in that last sentence ...
When we moderns read any scripture we tend to read it only one way. We read it as history that is supposed to have some sort of theologically edifying meaning to us. This style of reading fits so well ...
Throughout most of Church history the study of scriptures was not undertaken using the historical critical method that is employed by most of the Biblical scholars today. Today most scholars seek to ...
We recently posted on article from Fr. John A. Peck entitled “The Four Senses of Scripture.” In this present article Fr. John Whiteford addresses specifically the sense of allegorical interpretation ...
If you have ever talked with someone about the infallibility of the Bible, you probably heard that person quote the verse, “All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, ...
All Christians are involved in interpreting the Bible. When we read from Scripture, we interact with and interpret what we read. The problem is that sometimes we want to interpret the Bible to fit ...