Was wondering would anyone be interested in sharing scrrenshots and explaination of how you use the Discourse NT in sermon prep.
Thread includes a couple reading lists => Use of discourse analysis resources while thread => Discourse Analysis Studies. . . has some lessons learned
Suggestions forum has thread => Series of On-line Seminars on using Discourse Analysis in Bible Study
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Good articles, but not very helpful. I am looking for examples of how many of you all use the discourse with user end defintions for the major ones; ex. what does "sentence" really do for the discourse, things like that. I have all of Runge's works on the subject, but if a fellow pastor would give me how he uses it, it may help me. Thanks!
I use it for exegesis.
Take a passage I'm working on -- First Timothy 3:1. There is some disagreement on whether πιστὸςὁ λόγος applies to 2:15 or with 3:1. Much of it is due to the fact that 3:1 is not the type of saying we would suppose would be widely circulating via oral tradition. However, if we look at the verse with the lens of discourse grammar, we can see the phrase is a meta-comment to highlight the importance of what he is about to say.
A quick look from Gordon Fee and we see he agrees,
Perhapstoo much has been made of the concept “saying,” as though allthese “trust-worthy sayings” were in wide circulation in thechurch (as 1:15 probably was). More likely, this became for Paul akind of reinforcement formula: “What I am about to say has specialimport” or “can be generally accepted as true.”
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