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Over Thanksgiving Break my plan is to reread “The Uses of Argument” by Stephen E. Toulmin. It was required reading in my seminary’s systematic theology course, back when that course was still called “systematic theology.” I am doing the background on a possible course for laypeople on how to do theology. I have to warn you though, if you read “The Uses of Argument,” that you will have a difficult time listening to TV preachers and reading pop-theology best sellers. Here is an example of a statement that is SO EGREGIOUSLY WRONG in SO MANY WAYS that not even Apostle. A. A., Prophet B. B., Bishop C. C., popular author D. D., or megachurch superpastor E. E. would ever make it. I give it to you as an illustration of the structure of BAD THEOLOGY using TOULMIN’S CATEGORIES: Claim, Data, Warrant, Backing, etc.. CLAIM: There are no women in heaven. DATA: (1) “There was silence in heaven for about half an hour.” Revelation 8:1 (New American Standard Bible) (2) “Silence” in the Greek is “sige,” which means “the absence of all noise, whether made by SPEAKING or by anything else” (Arndt, Danker, and Bauer “A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature” Sixth Edition page 922.) WARRANT: Everyone knows, even Saint Paul, that women are constitutionally unable to keep quiet for long in group settings, therefore, since Heaven is a group setting, there are no women there. BACKING: The Bible says that women are constitutionally unable to keep quiet for long in group settings: “The women are to keep silent in the churches.” 1 Corinthians 14:34 (New American Standard Bible) – this is the verb form of the noun used in Rev 8:1, which means to “STOP SPEAKING, become silent.” (Arndt, Danker, and Bauer “A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature” Sixth Edition page 922.) amazon/Uses-Argument-Stephen-Edelston-Toulmin/dp/0521534836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416692279&sr=8-1&keywords=toulmin+the+uses+of+argument

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