Theology and Ethics

…And They Shall Prophesy (Hays, 2005)

Baccalaureate Sermon, Duke Divinity School, May 2005.

“When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.”

Now, one of the things that we have worked hard to teach you here at Duke Divinity School is the difficult art of
discerning when you can and cannot take the biblical story and apply it straight off to the situation in which you find yourself. This art is called, as you know, “hermeneutics.” Let me give you an illustration.