Question: Dewalt, what are the philosophical presuppositions of contextualization, and where and how can it be useful; what place would a biblical program of hermeneutics give to contextualization or what would be its substitute. Answer: Contextualization is different today then it was when it started. Contextualization is the process of assigning the meaning of a [...]
Archive for January, 2009
The Philosophical Presuppositions of Contextualization
Posted: January 22, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in Questions & Answers1
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.” - John Calvin
The Principle that Scripture has a Single Meaning?
Posted: January 20, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in Questions & AnswersQuestion: Dewalt can you please defend the principle that Scripture has a single meaning? How do you go about trying to draw out that single meaning? Illustrate in the case of Genesis 22. Can you have a single meaning here and still bring in Christ? Answer: Scripture has one single meaning? Yes! To the dispensationalist, [...]
Skipping and Evangelism
Posted: January 19, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in You Might be a Calvinist if..., You might be a Fundamentalist ifYou might be a (Dutch/Hyper) Calvinist if… you skip the Lord’s Supper because you don’t want the church to see the plates be passed by you. You might be a Fundamentalist if… when you evangelize, you asked someone, “Do you want to go to heaven?”
When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. (Isaiah 53:10) Our Lord Jesus has not died in vain. His death was sacrificial: He died as our substitute, because death was the penalty of our sins. Because His substitution was accepted of God, He has saved those for whom [...]
Book Review: The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards, by Dr. Steve J. Lawson
Posted: January 17, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in Book of the Week, Book ReviewJonathan Edwards has been called the greatest American Theologian of all time and is well known for both the tremendous amount of works that he has written, and his wonderful sermons that – in the past, and still today – help shape individuals’ lives closer to the image of Christ. There have been countless books [...]
Our Trip back to Michigan Together after Our Engagement
Posted: January 16, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in Emily and I(Post by Emily Harlan) Another chapter to this adventure we call life! D, and I woke up on Tuesday, and went to lunch with D’s mom and his friend Chris. We left for Toledo, Ohio where a friend from BBC lives now with his family as he interns at church. Keep in mind that we [...]
Question: Michael would you please describe and defend to me the view of hermeneutics current in the Reformation and show how it is different from views found by those in Emergent Church. Answer: Views in the current Reformation – Was one that during the end of the Middle Ages came back to the importance of [...]
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. – John Calvin
(Post by Emily Harlan) We hope that all is well with you all, and that your families are doing well! Both Dewalt (or Mike to some) and I wanted to share the tremendously exciting news with all of you at the same time, so here is a little bit of what is going on in [...]
