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Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Introduction Pull together components; rate doctrines 0-100. 4 categories: Biblical (8 pts), logical (6), historical (3), practical (3). Twenty-question diagnostic tool to evaluate doctrine Does the presenter show ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Defining Comparative Theology Not well-known branch; historically used in several ways (apologetics, world theology, etc.). Restorationist interest: Compare competing Christian theologies/doctrines (not other religions). ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Introduction and Purpose After biblical, systematic, analytic, and comparative theology, test your doctrine in the "laboratory of history." If a belief is true, others likely saw it too over 2,000 years. Massive Christian ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Introduction to Analytic Theology Analytic theology: Newer field (since ~2009); applies rigorous logic, philosophy, and clear reasoning to theological questions. Goal: Clarify doctrines, avoid fallacies, test arguments ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Recap from Biblical Theology Biblical theology highlights differences, developments, and author-specific emphases. Systematic theology seeks unity/coherence across all books. Quote (Köstenberger & Goswell): Bible’s ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Introduction to Theology Series This begins a 5-part theology section (5th floor of the tower). Theology = discourse about God (θεος + λογος); broadly any Christian belief/doctrine. Preliminaries before doing ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Humility in Application Be willing to change; Bible critiques us. Rules: Text can't mean what it never meant; same particulars = same application. Application can't contradict NT elsewhere. Avoid extremes ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Two Steps of Interpretation What it meant to them (historical context). What it means today (application, next lecture). Example: Rom 13:7 (pay taxes) – under Nero's tyranny. Avoid Time Problems Anachronism: ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Hermeneutics Overview Rules for exegesis (explaining text). Approaches: Devotional (personal), allegorical (hidden), historical-critical (skeptical), postmodern (perspective-based), ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Challenges of Translation "Translator, traitor": Lose/add meaning. Every translation is commentary English groove from 500 years – hard to break traditions. Process of Translation Critical texts: BHS (OT), ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Introduction Different story from NT; 3 parts: Manuscripts, criticism, examples. 3 families: Masoretic Text (MT), Samaritan Pentateuch (SP), Septuagint (LXX). Oldest Scrolls ...

Download: Restoration Theology Student Notes Tower Analogy Bible as foundation; manuscripts (mss.) copied by hand, with errors. Compare mss. for original readings; critical text in Greek. Focus: NT (OT next). History of NT Texts Byzantine texts: ...