Quote by David Schnasa Jacobsen

“The sapiential hermeneutic is a hermeneutic with a high tolerance for complexity and ambiguity. Sermons that grow out of the kind of inductive sapiential hermeneutic we have been describing honor the complexity and ambiguity of life. It” quote by David Schnasa Jacobsen — Download Open image

““The sapiential hermeneutic is a hermeneutic with a high tolerance for complexity and ambiguity. Sermons that grow out of the kind of inductive sapiential hermeneutic we have been describing honor the complexity and ambiguity of life. It””

David Schnasa Jacobsen

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings)

More by David Schnasa Jacobsen

“measures of truth fall short. God’s Way doesn’t always make sense; it is incoherent by rationalistic standards. Like Jesus, God’s truth is sometimes inappropriate by human social standards. And the truth of the cross bears pragmatic problems. But underneath all our judgments regarding the characteristics of truth and the norms we determine it by (i.e., appropriateness, coherence, pragmatism), there is…

David Schnasa Jacobsen

“way.” It is an unfinished eschatological conversation; initiated by God,”

David Schnasa Jacobsen

Image

“reign. Until God’s reign comes in all its fullness, we can only experience it in part in fragmentary ways. With”

David Schnasa Jacobsen

Image

“due a gracious, yet ever-mysterious God that is the beginning of wisdom. The second is the acknowledgement of human limitations and an accompanying respect for differing interpretations. The third is the listening heart, a lifelong alertness to patterns of God at work in our experience, that of others, the human sciences, and the world around us. The fourth is the…

David Schnasa Jacobsen

“People come to church seeking a living word from the living Lord, not a commentary on life from another Garrison Keillor”

David Schnasa Jacobsen

Image

“The theo-rhetorical concern is chiefly one of clarity: how to speak gospel and not to say something else,”

David Schnasa Jacobsen

Image

“True repentance, though, ultimately includes belief (i.e., trust) in God’s sovereign way as we turn from our old ways to point ourselves in God’s direction—i.e., the Lord’s purpose in creating and redeeming the world, which is symbolized as the eschatological vision of God’s reign. Until God’s reign comes in all its fullness, we can only experience it in part in…

David Schnasa Jacobsen

“From where I sit, all homiletical theological perspectives are interpretations with certain strengths and weaknesses. They have a provisional character. We cannot have full…

David Schnasa Jacobsen

Image

“This also leads Bonhoeffer to assert that the efficacy of preaching occurs only because it pleases God, who in the ministry of word and…

David Schnasa Jacobsen

Image

“Because the nature of all our God talk is inherently metaphoric and rhetorical, preaching will be a form of poetic rhetorical theology276 structured with…

David Schnasa Jacobsen