Hermeneutics and children’s and youth resources

John Walton, OT professor at Wheaton College Graduate School, identifies five common hermeneutical fallacies he has seen throughout children’s curricula:

  1. Promotion of the trivial
  2. Illegitimate extrapolation
  3. Reading between the lines
  4. Missing important nuance
  5. Focus on people rather than God

Read the whole thing over at Koinonia.

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