This is another for-class assignment I thought worthy of a blog post. Our assignment was to give our personal reactions to and analysis of three different proposed approaches to biblical interpretation.

J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays, Grasping God’s Word (2005), 178.

You know why I write so much when expressing my thoughts? For clarity (Believe it or not). The ideas I have are complex, intuitive, in-depth models constructed from my wide array of experiences and vague memories, and thus are inherently unique, subjective, and thereby difficult to express. This is, I understand, the core observation behind the philosophy of "Constructivism." Explaining my philosophical, social, intuitive, and/or emotional thoughts to you is like trying to explain how I think when doing calculus, writing a piece of music, or memorizing facts for a history test.

This is my reaction to my first assigned reading for the class "Scripture" (HONS 214H) at Andrews University.

"All human communities live out of some story that provides a context for understanding the meaning of history and gives shape and direction to their lives."