Universal salvation raises the critically important question of how we read the Bible—or ‘hermeneutics’. That is what Robin covers in this talk. He sweeps us through a big landscape in three succinct waves—each bigger than the one before. Firstly he confronts the foreground question of biblical texts—and he makes the point that everybody has problems here. How do we reconcile God’s love with his omnipotence? He then moves onto slightly broader terrain—we need the read texts in their context BUT the meaning of the texts will often be bigger than even the author intended or realised. And finally, he finishes with a new horizon of interpretation—the future. He talks about the ‘trajectories’ of the biblical canon, which stretch beyond themselves for future generations—like ours—to articulate. He uses the development of the doctrine of the Trinity as an example. So this talk is as much about how we read the Bible as how we do or don’t find ‘universal salvation’ in the Bible.
This is the second talk from our Hope and Hell conference.
Slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/gospelconversations/hermeneutics-and-hell-by-robin-parry
Tony Golsby-Smith: Is the Bible the Word of God?
Tony Golsby-Smith: Q and A
Mark Strom: Paul and the Open Heart
Mark Strom: Paul and the Open Society
Mark Strom: Paul and the Open Cosmos (Part 2)
Mark Strom: Paul and the Open Cosmos (Part 1)
Mark Strom: The Bible, Democracy, and Equality
Rikk Watts and Tony Golsby-Smith Dialogue (Part 4)
Rikk Watts and Tony Golsby-Smith Dialogue (Part 3)
Rikk Watts and Tony Golsby-Smith Dialogue (Part 2)
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Rikk Watts: Mark's Gospel (Part 3) Q and A
Rikk Watts: Mark's Gospel (Part 3)
Rikk Watts: Mark's Gospel (Part 2)
Rikk Watts: Mark's Gospel (Part 1)
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Science and Faith: How the Gospel shifted our view of reality
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