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Podcast: Is Cruciform Hermeneutics Simply Midrash?
Greg considers whether Cruciform Hermeneutics is just a complicated way of seeing what I want to see in the text, and offers nuanced thought for our more complicated hermeneutical challenges.
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Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
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