How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Step 12––Practical Theology
To summarize How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament, this blog journey has supplied twelve steps from exegesis to theology. I categorized each of the twelve under the acronym TOCMA, which stands for Text > Observation > Context > Meaning >...How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Step 10––Biblical Theology
Text (Genre, Literary units and text hierarchy, Text-criticism) Observation (Clause and text grammar, Argument-tracing, Word and concept studies) Context (Historical and Literary context) Meaning (Biblical and Systematic theology) Application (Practical theology) Once...How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament—Step 11: Systematic Theology
What is Systematic Theology? Systematic theology is the study of the Bible’s doctrine designed to help us shape a proper worldview. Systematic theology presupposes that the Bible gets reality right, and it assumes Scripture’s overarching unity while affirming the...How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Step 9–Literary Context
God gave us his word in a book that is made up of multiple books. Whereas biblical theology (step 10) looks more at Scripture as a whole, literary context focuses on the individual parts as they come to us within their overall canonical context. It’s the difference...How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Step 8–Historical Context
Step 8 of the interpretive process moves us from “Observation” to “Context” as we consider, “Where does the passage fit?” This post considers the historical context, and the next will consider the literary context. Starting to Assess Historical Context By considering...How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Step 7–Word and Concept Studies
In God’s wisdom, he chose to give us his Word in a book shaped by words. Words often carry a range of meanings, dependent on the context. If I say “trunk,” many different images may come to mind: (1) the main woody stem of a tree, (2) the torso of a person or animal’s...How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Step 6–Argument Tracing
When interpreting Scripture, we observe carefully by considering how a passage is communicated. We have already established the literary units and text hierarchy (step 2) and assessed clause and text grammar (step 5). So, we are ready to finish tracing the literary...How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Step 5–Clause and Text Grammar
With step 5 of the interpretive process we move from “Text” to “Observation,” and we consider a series of issues related to how a passage is communicated. Our initial goal is to assess the makeup and relationship of words, phrases, clauses, and larger text units. In...How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Step 4–Translation
According to the Wycliffe Global Alliance, only 2,932 of the approximately 7,000 languages have at least some of the bible; this leaves 3,955 languages without access to Scripture. Because “faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the word of Christ” (Rom 10:17),...DeRouchie’s Audio & Video Sites
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