Understanding and Applying the Bible

Revised and Expanded

Robertson McQuilkin

• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780802490926
• eBook ISBN: 9781575673608
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

Why do even the sincerest students of God's Word sometimes find it dry or confusing? Too often, Robertson McQuilkin suggest, it's because they don't know how to read it.

In his classic introduction to Bible study, McQuilkin shows everyday believers how to navigate the Bible's genres and plumb its thought structures with accuracy, experiencing afresh living encounters with the inspired Word.

Newly revised and updated, Understanding and Applying the Bible also examines the most common errors in Bible reading. In the end, McQuilkin maintains Scripture can be understood by anyone, simply by following a set of straightforward and time-tested principles.

Table of contents

• Principles and Guidelines for
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART ONE Presuppositions and Principles
• CHAPTER ONE Presuppositions of Biblical Interpretation
• CHAPTER TWO Supernaturalistic  Approaches of Premoderns
• CHAPTER THREE The Naturalistic  Approaches of Moderns
• CHAPTER FOUR The Naturalistic Approaches  of Postmoderns
• CHAPTER FIVE Dogmatic Approaches
• CHAPTER SIX Basic Principles for Understanding the Bible
• PART TWO Guidelines  and Skills
• Human Authorship
• CHAPTER SEVEN Understanding Human Language
• CHAPTER EIGHT Historical, Physical, and Cultural Setting
• CHAPTER NINE A Method for  Word Study
• CHAPTER TEN Analyzing Thought Structure
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Examining the Context
• CHAPTER TWELVE Figurative Language
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Parables
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Hebrew Poetry
• Divine Authorship: Interpretation
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN Unity of Scripture
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN Coherence of Truth
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN  Approach to Alleged Discrepancies
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN  Biblical  Prophecy
• Divine Authorship:  Application
• CHAPTER NINETEEN  Identifying the  Audience God  Intended
• CHAPTER TWENTY Identifying the Response God Desires
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Appendices
• Glossary
• Digital Bible Study Resources
• Index of  Subjects
• Index of  Scripture