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Interpretation Integrated in 'the Whole-ly Way'


The Integral Education and Learning of Knowing and Understanding God

Contents

Ch 1

Ch 2

Ch 3

Ch 4

Ch 5

Printable pdf
of entire study

●  Table of Contents

●  Scripture Index

●  Bibliography

 

 Note:  page numbers correspond with pdf version of study

 

 

 

Ch  1   The Realm of Connection…………………………........................1

 

     The Realm of the Hermeneutic Challenge              4

     Whose Epistemic, Hermeneutic and

          Relational Realm of Connection?                   10

    

 

Ch  2   Language: to Inform or to Communicate,

           to Discourse or to Connect………………………….....................14

 

     Understanding the Nature and Purpose of Scripture’s Language   16

          The Underlying Nature of Language                     17

          The Competing Purposes of Language                 19

     Language Barriers by Nature and on Purpose      23

     The Language of Love                                             25

     The Language of Sin                                                27

    

 

Ch  3   Challenging Our Interpretations……………………....................35 

 

     The Need for Challenging Interpretations                   36

     The Basis for Challenging Interpretations                   39

          Further Critical Distinctions to Make                            41

          The Whole Basis in Wholeness                                   44

     The Pivotal Challenge of Incarnated Interpretation     46

 

 

Ch  4   Our Perceptual-Interpretive Culture…………………………........51

 

     Contextualized Humans                                   52

     Contextualized by and in Culture                    54

     The Culture of Contextualized Christians      56

     The Critical Cultural Shift                                 58

          Jesus Engaging Culture             59

          Jesus’ Integral Approach            61

     The Culture of Our Theology and Practice      63

 

 

Ch  5   The Trajectory of Our Interpretations and

            the Path of Our Understanding…………………………..............67

 

     Countering the Underpinning Shift of Human Interpretation   69

     Countering the Essential Shift of Anthropology                       72         

     Countering the Primary Shift of the Human Context                79         

     Footwashing Education and Learning                                       84         

          Incarnating the Three ‘AREs’ of the Word’s Pedagogy             86

     Integrated Integrally in the Whole-ly Way                                  92         

          Song: The Holy God & the Holy Way                                        94

 

 

Scripture Index (Primary Source)……………………………………….......97

 

Bibliography (Secondary Source)……………………………………….......99