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02-18-2009 , 04:10 PM

Splendour

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Listening to Sproul on an interview today comparing 3 different schools of hermeneutics I decided to look up something more on the topic and came across an interesting link explaining some of the general guiding principles and some of the mistakes that can be made.

http://www.forananswer.org/Top_General/Hermeneutics.htm

Biblical hermeneutics is the science that teaches the principles and methods of interpreting the Word of God.

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02-18-2009 , 07:48 PM

tame_deuces

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Hermeneutics is one of early medieval christian scholars' big contributions to text analysis. That being said I think most modern christian scholars seem to make a complete mess out of things and do not follow the fine principles of hermeneutics at all.

This especially applies too fundamentalist and literary interpretations of the bible, which by hermeneutical principles is complete folly.

And hermeneutics is hardly a science, it is a text interpretation method.

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02-19-2009 , 12:06 AM

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This especially applies too fundamentalist and literary interpretations of the bible, which by hermeneutical principles is complete folly.

Did you mean literal?

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02-19-2009 , 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Jibninjas

Did you mean literal?

Yes. In hermeneutical tradition a literal (or "objective") interpretation of a text is seen as impossible.

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