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Christocentric Hermeneutics

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There are two ways to read the Bible. The one way to read the Bible is that it’s basically about you: what you have to do in order to be right with God, in which case you’ll never have a sure and certain hope, because you’ll always know you’re not quite living up. You’ll never be sure about that future. Or you can read it as all about Jesus. Every single thing is not about what you must do in order to make yourself right with God, but what he has done to make you absolutely right with God. And Jesus Christ is saying, “Unless you can read the Bible right, unless you can understand salvation by grace, you’ll never have a sure and certain hope. But once you understand it’s all about me, Jesus Christ, then you can know that you have peace. You can know that you have this future guaranteed, and you can face anything.”
Tim Keller

The hermeneutical question about the whole Bible correlates with the question, ‘What do you think of Christ?’ … The hermeneutical center of the Bible is therefore Jesus in his being and in his saving acts – the Jesus of the gospel. … We can say that, while not all Scripture is the gospel, all Scripture is related to the gospel that is its centre. … The Bible makes a very radical idea inescapable: not only is the gospel the interpretive norm for the whole Bible, but there is an important sense in which Jesus Christ is the mediator of the meaning of everything that exists. In other words, the gospel is the hermeneutical norm for the whole of reality.
Graeme Goldsworthy from Gospel-Centered Hermenutics

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Title Notes
Gospel-Driven: Good News People in a Bad News World (MP3s) by Michael Horton - Spring Theology Conference!icon
History of Salvation in the Old Testament: Preparing the Way for Christ Excerpt from the ESV Study Bibleicon
Overview of the Bible: A Survey of the History of Salvation (.pdf) Vern Poythressicon
Gospel-Centered Ministry (.pdf) Dr. Tim Kellericon
Christ in the Old Testament (12 MP3s) Brian Borgmanicon
The Glory of the Coming Lord: Discovering Christ in the Old Testament Edmund P. Clowneyicon
Jesus Christ: The Interpretive Key to the Scripture J.W. Hendryx - With Four Examples of Doctrinal Errors that Arise When this Key is not Usedicon
Is the Old Testament for Christians? Graeme Goldsworthyicon
Should We Employ the Hermeneutics of the New Testament Writers? Dan G. McCartneyicon
How Jesus Interpreted His Bible E. Earle Ellis (pdf)icon
The Reformers’ Hermeneutic: Grammatical, Historical, and Christ-Centered Nathan Pitchfordicon
Apostolic Hermeneutics and an Evangelical Doctrine of Scripture Peter Enns - Moving beyond a Modernist Impasseicon
The Blackham-Goldsworthy Debate: Faith in Christ in the Old Testament Graeme Goldsworthy - A Response to Paul Blackhamicon
Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: Interpretation vs. Application Mike Riccardi icon
That All May Honour the Son: Holding Out For A Deeper Christocentrism Andrew Moodyicon
TGC Asks About Cautions for Christ-Centered OT Teaching Tim Keller, Don Carson and David Murray. (Murray's answer particularly helpful)icon
Preaching Christ from OT (13 Lectures) David Murray - Puritan Reformed Theological Seminaryicon
Preaching Christ from His Prophets (.pdf) David Murrayicon
Preaching Christ from the Law (.pdf) David P Murrayicon
Preaching Christ from the Old Testament (.pdf) David Murrayicon
Preaching Christ From His Covenants (.pdf) David Murrayicon
Typology: A step-by-step guide (.pdf) David Murray, a step-by-step guide to preparing a sermon on the Old Testament typesicon
The Old Testament Doctrine of Salvation or, How Men were Saved in Old Testament Times (HTML. ePub & .mobi) WILLIAM DEAS KERSWILLicon
Preaching Christ from the Old Testament Introduction (.pdf) David P. Murrayicon
How the Bible Hangs Together D. A. Carsonicon
What Is the Bible About? (MP3) Tim Kellericon
One of the Most Important Principles in Reading the Bible John Pipericon
The Search: Finding Jesus In The Old Testament (MP3 Series) Darrin Patrickicon
An Interview with Graeme Goldsworthy Dr. Michael Hortonicon
Preaching Christ How All of Scripture Points to Him Edmund P. Clowneyicon
The Skull Crushing Seed of the Woman: Inner-Biblical Interpretation of Genesis 3:15 (.pdf) James Hamiltonicon
The Old Testament and Christian Faith: Jesus and the Old Testament in Matthew 1-5. Part 2 John Goldingayicon
The Old Testament and Christian Faith: Jesus and the Old Testament in Matthew 1-5. Part 1 John Goldingayicon
Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures Dennis E. Johnsonicon
Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Contemporary Hermeneutical Method Sidney Greidanusicon
An interview with Arturo G. Azurdia III Exiled Preachericon
What is Gospel-Centered Ministry? (MP3) Tim Keller - The Gospel Coalitionicon
Christology in the Old Testament (mp3) Drs. Duane Garrett, Peter Gentry, and James Hamiltonicon
Images of the Savior from the Pentateuch (.pdf) Nathan Pitchford - shows how every event and feature of the OT text is designed to teach us something of Christ the Savioricon
God Centered Biblical Interpretation (Online Book) Vern S. Poythressicon
A Christological Hermeneutic: Crisis and Conflict in Hermeneutics Donald G. Bloeschicon
Was There an Apostolic Hermeneutic and Can We Imitate it? R. Scott Clarkicon
Hermeneutics and Christ Graeme Goldsworthyicon
Can We Reproduce The Exegesis Of The New Testament? Scott A. Swanson - Why Are We Still Asking? (Trinity Journal, 1996)icon
Christ the Only Savior of Interpretation Vern S. Poythressicon
Christ in the Old Testament Horace Hummelicon
Christ in the Old Testament P. Shaun Bryant (Grace OPC Modesto) - These are the speaking notes from a recent adult Sunday School series on finding Christ in the Old Testament.icon
Anticipations of Christ in the Old Testament H.P. Liddon.icon
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Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics
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