Houston E.
Puritan Board Freshman
A couple of years ago at SWBTS I took an OT class with Roger Maddox. He posed the following view on biblical revelation:
If it will help I can provide the examples he gives, but just wanted to see if this was familiar to anyone and get your thoughts. I remember it causing much discussion among the class.
What say ye?
Rather than progressive revelation by God, the interpreter best understands most biblical revelation to be a process of reactualization. Reactualization is the interpretation and reapplication of previously revealed truth. In other words, previously given revelation is reinterpreted and reapplied to a new or contingent (i.e. potential) situation.
If it will help I can provide the examples he gives, but just wanted to see if this was familiar to anyone and get your thoughts. I remember it causing much discussion among the class.
What say ye?