This thesis culminates in an eight-hour seminar designed to equip pastors with the process of principlization. The seminar focuses on the utilization of the Ladder of Abstraction in deriving a timeless principle from a biblical text. 
 
Biblical application is authoritative application. The major premise of this work is that preachers should go through a process of theological principlization in validating their applications. 
The need for this thesis became apparent through bibliographic research which revealed limited works covering the process of principlization. Chapter two affirms the need to principlize and the validity of the method. In chapter three, different application methods, approaches and models related to principlization are reviewed. 
 
The seminar is presented in chapter four in three sessions. The first session defines and explores the advantages of principlization. Different degrees of authority are introduced to highlight the need for principlization. The second session concentrates on the Ladder of Abstraction in a homiletical context. Different techniques are used in abstracting a biblical text into a principle. In the third session, authorial intent and literary form are the two tools introduced to validate the principle.

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