Mentor's Manual

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10. Outline the major kinds of commentaries that exist as aids to our interpretation (i.e., devotional, doctrinal, exegetical, and homiletic), and carefully articulate the major benefits and cautions associated with their use. 11. Summarize the “best use” protocol for using extra-biblical tools in our biblical interpretation, including our attempt to help us bridge the gap between the two worlds of the text and our contemporary world. 12. Articulate the limits of the tools, i.e., how in the final analysis, all claims are to be rigorously tested against the claims of the Scriptures themselves, and nothing is to be accepted that is found to contradict the plain confession of the Scriptures about the person of Christ and his work of redemption.

Teaching Objectives for Capstone, by Module