Wednesday night at 222mission, we heard brief sketches and insights into the life of Jim Elliot and the story of the Auca Indian massacre in January 1956. The primary work cited was The Journals of Jim Elliot, edited by Elisabeth Elliot. Clicking here will take you to amazon's page.Here's a link to a bio of Jim's life - I'm not sure how accurate it is. And also the Billy Graham Center Archives link where you can borrow audio sermons and other archival material about Jim Elliot (Sorry, it was incorrectly said that one could hear Jim's sermons online, however you can possibly "check out" the tapes by clicking here.)
Below are just a few topical headings used to sum up different quotes from Jim regarding different subject matter. These page numbers are from an earlier edition (than above) of the book, so they may be off a page or two, but the dates should aid in locating each entry. This is a good read and is recommended, especially if you've already read Shadow of the Almighty, Through Gates of Splendor and/or Passion and Purity.
Allegorical Bible Interpretation
January 19 – pg 14
February 23 – pg 29
March 17, 19 – pg 39-40
E.E.’s intro – pg 203
January 16 – pg. 208
Legalistic tendencies
Feb 13 – pg 24
“Self righteous” thoughts
January 29 – pg 18
Humility
April 16 – pg 49
October 18 – pg 95
October 22 – pg 96
November 20 – pg 474 – struggles with devo’s
December 31 – pg 475 – last journal entry, ever.
Devotions/Study
Page 93 – Devo’s 3 x’s, including Greek
January 9 – pg 205 on Forgiveness (Heb/Rom)
December 5 – pg 353 on preaching with power
Against “easy-believism & decisionism”
April 12 – pg 442-443
Elisabeth(Betty or Betts) Howard
June 8 – pg 64-65
September 20 – pg 84
September 22 – pg 85
October 18 – pg 346
August 6 – pg 406
January 16 – pg 464 – married life
Love
December 2 – pg 190 (on letter from Betty about “love”)
August 26 – pg 410
Tempatation/Lust
December 19 – pg 194
December 25 - pg 197-98
July 31 – pg 404-05
March 25 – pg 440
March 29 – pg 441-2
June 13 – pg 446
July 21 – pg 449
Great Quotes
January 29 – pg 18 “light these idle sticks…”
February 2- pg 20 “make my way prosperous…”
June 18 – pg 69 “fix my heart wholly…”
October 27 – pg 97 “send trouble that I might know peace”
April 27 – pg 129 “Word & the Cross”
October 28 – pg 174 “He is no fool…”
November 24 – pg 186 “firmness without hardness…”
November 29 – pg 188 “God’s quietness”
Use of Greek in study
November 10 – pg 181
Calvinist or Arminian??
January 19 –pg 14
November 9 – pg 180
February 3 - pg 214
Interesting(?) Interpretations
March 24 – pg 43 “finger of God’
September 30 – pg 344 (or prophetic on Christ’s wounds/suffering)
“Prophetic” Utterances/Heaven
October 9 – pg 91-92
October 22 – pg 96
October 28 – pg 97
November 1
November 6 – pg 178
December 31 – pg 200 First mention of Ecuador
January 4 - pg 204-05
August 22 – pg 409-10
And don't forget the viewing of Beyond the Gates of Splendor,
NEXT WEDNESDAY, October 5th at 6:30! We'll probably show the movie back to back, to allow the orchestra students to see it after their practice.
And lastly, a few notes & comments about ALLEGORISM:
Allegorism – beneath the literal meaning of Scripture was the true meaning.
hidden meaning – Grk “hyponoia”
If literal sense was body of Scripture, allegorical sense was it’s soul.
Literal meaning wasn’t useless, but was for the immature
If there are no cues, hints, connections, or other associations which indicate that the record is an allegory, and what the allegory intends to teach, we are on very uncertain grounds.
-Bernard Ramm, Protestant Biblical Interpretation
The Christian church up to Reformation, had pure motives for allegorizing – the OT was a Christian document…(OT conceals what NT reveals), but they used it to excess.
Dangers:
Historical sense was usually ignored
Unfamiliar with progressive revelation
Considered OT & NT filled with parables, enigmas & riddles
Blurred allegorical with typical
They did, however, retain the true Gospel & kept in central (as did Elliot)
“The Bible treated allegorically becomes putty in the hand of the exegete.” – Ramm
“When the historical sense of a passage is once abandoned there is wanting any sound regulative principle to govern exegesis…The mystical [allegorical] method of exegesis, is an unscientific and arbitrary method, reduces the Bible to obscure enigmas, undermines the authority of all interpretation, and therefore, when taken by itself, failed to meet the apologetic necessities of the time. – K. Fullerton, Prophecy and Authority, p. 81, quoted in Ramm, Protestant Biblical Interpretation
Misinterpreted 2 Corinthians 3:6 “the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life”
Luther of allegorism: “dirt…scum…obsolete loose rags…a harlot…a monkey game” (but only for Catholics, if Christians used it for Christ, then it was somewhat allowed)
Reformers solidified proper hermeneutics – Luther, Calvin, Puritans – even so, post-reformation brought on “tyrannous confessionalism; the curse of exorbitant systems; the curse of contentious bitterness…The read the Bible by the unnatural glare of theological hatred.” – Farrar
Out of the post-reformation stiffness came “pietism”
Pros: Devotional & practical emphasis in Bible reading is necessaryCons: Easy to allegorize (esp. OT when it’s more “dry”), and Devo’s may substitute for the necessary spade work of exegetical studies.
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