Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible, rev. ed.
Overview
This is a book for people who teach the Bible—for people who seek to interpret and apply the Scriptures with confidence. Do you want to remind yourself of familiar principles? Organize scattered methods? Prepare for a teaching ministry? Learn more about what exegesis entails? This serious but nontechnical introduction to Bible interpretation will meet you where you are and help you to hone critical skills.
Professor, author, and former pastor Daniel Doriani presents six steps of interpretation in the order in which students of Scripture use them: context, analysis, problems, themes, obligations, and reflection. He also presents the steps for a topical Bible study, discusses available resources, and offers suggestions for getting started.
Since its original publication in 1996, Getting the Message has been used by teenagers, college students, and seminarians and by Christian leaders on each inhabited continent. This new edition has been revised with a global audience in mind.
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- Presents six steps of interpretation in the order in which students of Scripture use them
- Focuses on context, analysis, problems, themes, obligations, and reflection
- Provides steps for a topical Bible study, discusses available resources, and offers suggestions for getting started
- Title: Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible
- Author: Daniel M. Doriani
- Edition: Revised and Expanded
- Publisher: P&R
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 292
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Hermeneutics; Bible › Study and teaching
- ISBNs: 9781629950143, 9781629950150, 1629950149, 1629950157
- Resource ID: LLS:GTTNGMSSGPLNRVD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:26:17Z
Dr. Dan Doriani, vice president of strategic academic projects and professor of theology at Covenant Seminary, has extensive teaching and pastoral experience.
He served as assistant professor of biblical studies at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania for five years, as solo pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church in Cumberland, Maryland for five years, as well as a variety of associate pastor, interim pastor, and stated supply roles. He has been involved in several planning and study committees at the presbytery level in both the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). He was also chair of the PCA’s Theological Examining Committee from 1999 to 2000.
He has authored several books, including Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible(P&R, 1996), Putting the Truth to Work: The Theory and Practice of Biblical Application (P&R, 2001), The Life of a God-Made Man (Crossway, 2001), and commentaries on Matthew and 1 Peter in P&R Publishing’s Reformed Expository Commentaries series.
Dr. Doriani and his wife, Debbie, live in Chesterfield, Missouri, and have three grown daughters.