I have been in the process of trying to clean up some of the older posts. Back in June and July I laid out some of my initial ideas. I explained this a few posts back.
In light of the present discussion regarding Means, the following posts may or may not be helpful.
I wrote them quickly and didn't always explain my terms. I assumed quite a bit from the reader. Some of you will be familiar enough to benefit, others may end up being quite lost. If you're interested and you find yourself confused over a term or a name, email me and I'll explain.
I know I'm completely losing some of you on these theological points but as always I'm trying to challenge. If you don't agree that's fine, but thinking about these things will only enrich your Bible reading. And if you don't agree it will help you to understand why some people believe as they do and perhaps even help you to argue against people like me. I hope that's not the case but I'm certainly willing to take the risk.
Here are a few relevant posts that I've cleaned up. Again, it's all pretty much the same idea, but perhaps explained a different way, it may resonate in a way the recent posts have not.
http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2010/06/8-hermeneutical-key-from-augustine.html
http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2010/06/9-augustine-and-hermeneutics-part-2.html
http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2010/06/10-hermeneutics-continued.html
http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2010/06/11-dialectical-hermeneutics-continued.html
http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-on-visible-church.html
http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2010/06/dialectical-theology.html