Hermenutic??

[tfeo2inxal1]

have studied at several schools. Some mildly dispensational, some strict. My problem is that no one has been able to take me through scripture and teach me HOW you come to dispensationalism, covenant, or new covenant theology. There seems to be major flaws in dispensational thought, and no one has clearly given me a good scriptural explaination of Covenant theology (or NCT). I am leaning towards some form of Covenant, but i want to base my stance on scripture alone. i can give youa logical, chronological flow of all three perspectives....but cant back *much* up with scripture. can anyone point me to a good book (or probably more like 3 good books) that go through scripture and explain the major ideas (and alot of the smaller stuff too) or each of these hermenutics? i desperately desire to have a grasp on this because i dont think you can go very far theologically without having your hermenutic nailed down fairly tight. like i said, i dont need another explaination of the ideas, i need scripture explained. thanks for your help.
jacob

 

[Ken]

http://www.modernreformation.org/mr00/julaug/mr0004theologyillustrated.html
http://www.modernreformation.org/mr99/janfeb/mr9901premillenialism.html

2 online books by Meredith Kline may help... not sure though
http://www.twoagepress.org/Glory.pdf
http://homepage.mac.com/shanerosenthal/reformationink/contemp.htm nearly 400 pages long!

I struggle with the same issues, maybe these links will help, maybe not...

blessings

 

[reformedfan]

A.W. Pink has an excellent book I'm reading now called "The Divine Covenants".
It's chock fulla brilliance & thought provoking stuff, yet easy enough reading you don't need to sit & take notes.
Cumberland Valley Bible Book Store (or maybe "distributor". It's either CVBBS or CVBBD) is the dirt cheapest place for theology books, like Calvin, Van Til, Pink, etc. Maybe they even have a website, idunno.
Covenant theology is the most Biblical: the Bible as a whole, not as 2 halves.

 

[Ken]

even better, the book is available free at
http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/Divine_Covenants/divine_covenants.htm

many of his writings are free at the above site...
http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/pinks_archive.htm

he has also written on Dispensationalism, found at the above site...

 

[reformedfan]

Cool, thanx for the free Pink site, Ken! I plan to add it to my faves

 

[Crazy Liz]

I don't think it's necessary to have "your hermenutic nailed down fairly tight." I very much like the way Michael Jinkins describes the hermeneutical cycle in Invitation to Theology. The best theologians I know remain open to new interpretations of scripture whenever they find their current ones inadequate. Personally, I don't think either the covenantal or dispensational method of systematizing scripture is a very good key to understanding scripture. Rather, I find Jinkins' description of doing theology in community to be much more profitable.