An introduction to classical evangelical hermeneutics: A guide to the history and practice of biblical interpretation

An Introduction to Classical Evangelical Hermeneutics: A Guide to the History and Practice of Biblical Interpretation. Edited by Mal Couch. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2000, 371 pp., n.p. paper.

This work consists of 23 chapters by seven scholars. Most (but not all) of the chapters are adapted from previously published works; some of the chapters are unattributed to any author or source. The volume is produced "in honor of The Conservative Theological Society" (p. 3), and its essays are devoted to presenting and defending an explicitly premillennial hermeneutic, formulated in contrast to the amillennial hermeneutic of Hodge and Berkhof.

After an introductory chapter by the editor ("God Has Spoken," [pp. 11-14]), the essays are as follows: "The Evangelical Doctrine of Inspiration and Inerrancy - Restated," by Bobby Hayes (pp. 15-31); "Systematic Theology and Hermeneutics," by Ron Johnson (pp. 32-47); "Theological and Prophetic Systems Throughout History," (pp. 48-51); "Principles of Hermeneutics," (pp. 52-70); "Symbols and Types in Prophecy," by Paul Lee Tan (pp. 71-84); "The Early Church Fathers and the Foundations of Dispensationalism," by Larry V. Crutchfield (pp. 87-94); "The Allegorists Who Undermined the Normal Interpretation of Scripture," (pp. 95-103); "Calvinism, Dispensationalism, and Later History," (pp. 104-27); "The Dispensations of Charles Hodge," (pp. 128-138); "Hermeneutics and the Covenants of Scripture," (pp. 139-53); "Covenant Theology and the Doctrine of the Church," by Mal Couch (pp. 157-63); "Dispensational Hermeneutics and the Doctrine of the Church," by Mal Couch (pp. 164-81); "Dispensation of the Law Replaced by the Dispensation of the Church," (pp. 182-91); "Salvation in the Dispensation of the Church," by Mal Couch (pp. 192-98); "The First Reference to the Church: Matthew 16:13-20," by Mal Couch (pp. 199-209); "Matthew 13: The Church or Kingdom?" (pp. 210-20); "The Postponement Theory," (pp. 221-26); "Is the Church Grafted into Israel, as Some Allegorists Believe?" (pp. 227-35); "Why the Church is Not Referenced in the Olivet Discourse," by Russell L. Penney (pp. 236-52); "Introductory Thoughts in Allegorical Interpretation and the Book of Revelation," by Mal Couch (pp. 255-90); "The Kingdom of God," (pp. 291-99); "Is Ezekiel's Temple Literal?" by Ron Johnson and Paul Tan Lee (pp. 300-316).

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