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Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to Walter Kaiser, a gap exists in the academic preparation of ministers. It is the gap between the study of the biblical text (most frequently in the original languages) and the actual delivery of messages to God’s people. Very few centers of biblical and homiletical training have ever taken the time or effort to show the student how one moves from analyzing the text to constructing a...

to discover the proper causes, [2] the natural sequence, [3] the pertinency of expressions to the subject discussed, and [4] the delicate distinctions of thought which characterize particular kinds of composition is distinct from the habit of carefully tracing out the various senses of separate terms.1 So the problem is not merely the common error of forgetting or disregarding the immediate context. It is, rather, the more serious error of attempting to atomize or fragment the text and then presuming
Pages 70–71
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