Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Presents solid principles and clear examples of biblical interpretation. Doriani summarizes the main principles for interpretation in a single, easily remembered acronym: CAPTOR.
Top Highlights
“Look for at least one believer, one unbeliever, and one undecided individual or group.” (Page 66)
“Remember that God is at least a background character in every biblical drama” (Page 66)
“In speech or pronouncement stories, therefore, we focus on speech, even if we are actually reading a narrative. The main point of the speech most often comes at the beginning or the end.” (Pages 63–64)
“5. To excel in application, one must combine the seemingly opposed faculties of discipline and imagination” (Page 129)
“Principle 1: Look for words and phrases that explicitly connect one idea to another.” (Page 81)
- Title: Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible
- Author: Daniel M. Doriani
- Publisher: P&R
- Print Publication Date: 1996
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 255
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Hermeneutics; Bible › Study and teaching
- ISBNs: 0875522386, 9780875522388
- Resource ID: LLS:GETTINGMESSAGE
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:14:52Z
Dr. Dan Doriani, vice president of strategic academic projects and professor of theology at Covenant Seminary, has extensive teaching and pastoral experience.
He served as assistant professor of biblical studies at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania for five years, as solo pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church in Cumberland, Maryland for five years, as well as a variety of associate pastor, interim pastor, and stated supply roles. He has been involved in several planning and study committees at the presbytery level in both the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). He was also chair of the PCA’s Theological Examining Committee from 1999 to 2000.
He has authored several books, including Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible(P&R, 1996), Putting the Truth to Work: The Theory and Practice of Biblical Application (P&R, 2001), The Life of a God-Made Man (Crossway, 2001), and commentaries on Matthew and 1 Peter in P&R Publishing’s Reformed Expository Commentaries series.
Dr. Doriani and his wife, Debbie, live in Chesterfield, Missouri, and have three grown daughters.