Biblical hermeneutics

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia - Biblical hermeneutics

Biblical Hermeneutics, part of the broader hermeneutical question, relates to the problem of how one is to understand Holy Scripture. By definition, this is a theological act, ie. part of the discourse of a faith-community. This does not mean that it is of no relevance to those who do not consider themselves to be part of that community, but rather that it is an issue that arises out of the particular needs of that community. Therefore one ought to differentiate between Christian and Jewish Biblical hermeneutics: although there ...

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Biblical hermeneutics - Theological Hermeneutics as traditional Christian Biblical Exegesis

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia II - Hermeneutics - Biblical hermeneutics Perhaps the most commonly used meaning of the word hermeneutics outside academic circles is in relation to Biblical interpretation. Throughout Christian history scholars and students of the Bible have sought to mine the wealth of its meanings by developing a variety of different systems of hermeneutics. The question relates to the problem of how the reader is to understand Holy Scripture. By definition, this is a theological act, ie. part of the discourse of a faith-community. This does not mean that it is of no relevance to those who ...

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Hermeneutics - Etymology

Hermeneutics - Biblical hermeneutics

Hermeneutics - Medieval hermeneutics

Hermeneutics - Renaissance hermeneutics

Hermeneutics - Hermeneutic traditions

Hermeneutics - Hermeneutics in Law

Hermeneutics - Hermeneutics in Sociology

Hermeneutics - Hermeneutics of Schleiermacher and Dilthey

Hermeneutics - Hermeneutics since Dilthey

Hermeneutics - Misuse

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia II - Hermeneutics - Hermeneutic traditions

Hermeneutics in the Western world, as a general science of text interpretation, can be traced back to two separate sources. One source was the ancient Greek rhetoricians' study of literature, which came to fruition in Hellenistic Alexandria. The other source has been the contemporary Midrash traditions of Biblical exegesis, that were contemporary with Hellenistic culture. Scholars in antiquity expected a text to be coherent, consistent in grammar, style and outlook, and they emended obscure or "decadent" readings to comply with their codified rules. By extending the perception of inherent logic of texts, Gre ...

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Biblical inerrancy - Basis of Belief

Biblical inerrancy - Biblical Literalism

Biblical inerrancy - The Mainstream Evangelical Protestant Position in America

Biblical inerrancy - The Catholic Position

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia - Premillennialism

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Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia - Biblical genre

A Biblical genre is a particular style of writing in Biblical texts which reveals differences of intent, meaning, authourship, register, tone, formality and formatting. Biblical genres are a part of broader types of literary genres which are discussed elsewhere in relation to the discipline of comparative literature, but Biblical genres (along with genre in many other sacred or religious texts) are unique in one sense because of the very high esteem and spiritual value which Biblical scriptures are given by Christians and also some secular archaeological-liter ...

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia - Biblical studies

Biblical studies is the academic study of what Christianity calls the Bible (including the New Testament and Old Testament, sometimes called the "Scriptures"), and what Judaism terms the Hebrew Bible (also called the Torah or Tanakh in Hebrew). Biblical studies is a branch of theology, but also draws on the disciplines of history, literary criticism, philology, and increasingly the social sciences. Practitioners of Biblical Studies do not necessarily have faith commitment to the texts they study. Biblical studies - In Ju ...

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Biblical studies - In Judaism

Biblical studies - In Christianity

Biblical studies - Background

Biblical studies - Principles of Biblical interpretation

Biblical studies - Hebrew and Greek languages

Biblical studies - Various studies in the books of the Bible

Biblical studies - Non core-related studies

Biblical studies - Homiletics

Biblical studies - Missions

Biblical studies - Other service related disciplines

Biblical studies - Further higher studies and the status of studies

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia - Glossolalia

Glossolalia (from the Greek, "γλώσσα" (glossa), tongue and "λαλώ" (lalô), to speak) comprises the utterance of what appears (to the casual listener) either as an unknown foreign language (xenoglossia), simply nonsense syllables, or utterance of an unknown mystical language; the utterances sometimes occur as part of religious worship (religious glossolalia). Skeptics dismiss these cases as simply being in a state of trance, self-hypnotism or religious ecstasy. It is notable that in Charismatic/Pentecosta ...

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Glossolalia - Linguistic view

Glossolalia - Psychological view

Glossolalia - Christian view of speaking in tongues

Glossolalia - Non-Christian glossolalia

Glossolalia - Biblical references to speaking in tongues

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia - Covenant Theology

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Covenant Theology - History of Covenant Theology Covenant Theology - Covenant Theology and the biblical covenants Covenant Theology - Covenant Theology and the sacraments
Covenant Theology - The Lord's Supper Covenant Theology - Baptism
Covenant Theology - Historical documents relating to Covenant Theology Covenant Theology - Critics of Covenant Theology

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia - Liberal Christianity

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Liberal Christianity - Difficulties in definition

Liberal Christianity - History

Liberal Christianity - Characteristics of Liberal Christianity

Liberal Christianity - Criticisms of Liberal Christianity

Liberal Christianity - Liberal theology

Liberal Christianity - The tenets of Liberal theology

Liberal Christianity - Liberal theology and religious language

Liberal Christianity - Liberal hermeneutics

Liberal Christianity - Liberal Christian Theologians and Authors

Liberal Christianity - Protestant

Liberal Christianity - Catholic

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia - Bible study

Bible study may refer to: Biblical studies in an academic sense Biblical hermeneutics Grammatical-historical Higher criticism Bibliology Literature Christian eschatology Christian theology Biblical theology Systematic theology "Devotions" or "Quiet times" Category: Bible Other related archivesBible, Biblical hermeneutics, Biblical

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia II - Hermeneutics - Medieval hermeneutics

Medieval interpretations of text incorporated exegesis in a fourfold mode that emphasized the distinction between the letter and the spirit of the text. This handy scheme of various ways of interpreting the text was handed down from Patristic programs of Late Antiquity. The literal sense (sensus historicus) of Scripture denotes what the text states or reports directly. The allegorical sense (sensus allegoricus) explains the text with regard to the doctrinal content of church dogma, as a manifestation in which each literal eleme ...

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Abortion and Evangelical Christians - The Bible and Hermeneutics

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Quoted Biblical passages

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Psalm 139:13-16

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Jeremiah 1:5

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Luke 1:41 and 2:12

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Psalm 137:9

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Evangelical teaching on specific situations

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - The inability of the mother to care for the child

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Pregnancy as a result of rape

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Pregnancy as a result of incest

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Severe physical and/or intellectual disability

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Social stigma

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Ectopic Pregnancies

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - In vitro fertilisation

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Human Cloning

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Biblical law and Christian Reconstructionism

Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Neoliberalism and evangelicalism

Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia - Exegesis

This article discusses textual hermeneutics. For the British est offshoot, see Exegesis (group) Exegesis (from the Greek ἐξηγεῖσθαι 'to lead out') involves an extensive and critical interpretation of a text, especially of a holy scripture, such as of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Qur'an, etc. An exegete is a practitioner of this scien ...

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Exegesis - In Christianity

Exegesis - Roman Catholic traditions

Exegesis - Protestant traditions

Exegesis - In Judaism

Exegesis - In Islam

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Biblical hermeneutics: Encyclopedia II - Hermeneutics - Hermeneutics of Schleiermacher and Dilthey

Friedrich Schleiermacher explored the nature of understanding in relation not just to the problem of deciphering sacred texts, but to all human texts and modes of communication. The interpretation of a text must proceed by framing the content asserted in terms of the overall organization of the work. He distinguishes between grammatical interpretation and psychological interpretation. The former studies how a work is composed from general ideas, the latter ...