Commonplaces

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What is the Canonical Perspective?

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Matthew LaMaster
Aug 20, 2024
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Simply put: the canonical perspective is the conviction that one part of Scripture is best understood for the role it plays in the whole.

In the past 150 years, there have been numerous scholarly, “critical” schools with various visions defining an accurate methodology for interpreting Scripture. To cover the most important: historical criticism focused …

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