04-From Complexity to Simplicity

Kim continues laying the groundwork for his covenant hermeneutic of the entire story of the Bible. The "one and the many" principle is necessary to rightly interpret the Bible as a whole: God is both complex and simple and so is His revealed Word. Similar to playing chess, every piece is needed to play properly and to understand the game overall.

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Theologian Kim Burgess likens systematic theology to dissection and biblical theology to vivisection. While both methods seek to understand what the Bible is saying, one works in bits and pieces, while the other works to understand the Bible as an organic whole. Traditional evangelical interpretations are too often informed by the dissection method and less by vivisection.