Terms from Whatsapp Flashcards
Vindication
the action of clearing someone of blame or suspicion:
Restoration
the action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition
Lexical
The customary way in which the word was used by bible writer
Syntatic interpretation
To interpret according to the grammatical principles known to exist at the time of writing.
The tenses, use of articles etc, must be considered
Like the text- Behold I stand at the door ad knock
Based on the tense used- it is really I have been standing and I have been knocking
Contextual Interpretation
Deals with understanding the current line of thought of the writer, the preceding and following passage he is studying
Historical (Context/Interpretation)
Why did they write it back then, what was happening at the time to cause them to write it?
Also, the understanding of the cultural, religious, political and or social peculiarities will aid in understanding the text
Preterism
The idea that the prophecies of the bible have already been fulfiled
Proh of Daniel fulfiled in 1st century AD
Comes from Latin praeter- means past or beyond- signifying all or most prophecy fulfilled by AD 70
View comes as defense against Protestant Historicist view that the Roman Catholic church was a persecuting apostasy (and the antichrist
Made by Jesuit Luis de Alcasar
Futurism
That interprets portions of Revelation, the book of Daniel, and
other prophecies as future events in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context
Close association to Premillenialism and Dispensationalism
Some futurist interpretation: Irenaeus of Lyon for instance said that the 70th week of
Daniel is yet to be fulfilled (to counter again the Protestant historicist interpretation of Dan and REV)
Fransisco Ribera (1537-1591) wrote a 500 page commentary on Rev- established in futurist interpretation
Historicism Interpretation
Associates bible prophecies with actual historical events and identify symbolic beings with historical persons or societies.
This view results in a progressive and continuos fulfilment of prophecy and contained the
viewpoint from almost all protestant reformers from reformation to 19th century
Main texts of interest are Dan and Rev- and historicist methods have been applied to
Jewish history, the Roman Empre, Islam, the Papacy, the Modern era till end of time
Dispensationalism
Evangelical, futurist, biblical interpretation that understands God to have
relates to human beings in different ways under different biblical covenants in a series of
“dispensations” or periods of history )Old dispensation vs New)
Expounded on by John Nelson Darby(1800-82) and the Plymouth Brethern=en movement, and
propagated through works such as Cyrus Scofield’s Scofield reference bible.
Dispensationalism hold to premillennialism and most hold to pretribulation rapture
- So to them, the nation of Israel is distinct from the Christian Church, and that
God has yet to fulfill His promises to nation of Israel (including land promises
which in the future world to come in a millennial kingdom and third temple where
Christ upon return will rule the world from Jerusalem for 1000 years
Other belief, wide range
Line upon line, precept upon precept
All scripture passages bearing upon the same theme/subject are brought together to determine the biblical teaching on that subject.
Eg. State of dead- passages in genesis, writings of paul etc, come together to teach that the dead are just corpses and there is no conscious soul roaming about after you die
Gnoticism
comes from the greek- gnostikos= knowing or able to discern
refers to various early Christian sects that claimed to have direct personal knowledge beyond the gospel
Apostasy
Abandoning or renouncing of religios belief
Typology
The study and interpretation of symbols in the Bible involving:
So matching symbols to areas of their fulfilment
Symbols in OT have their fulfilment in NT
