Digital Book: Critical Considerations for Biblical Hermeneutics: Because Meaning and Interpretation are Important for Every Christian Leader

Description

Critical Considerations for Biblical Hermeneutics is intended for discovering, developing, and practicing a standardized and reliable process for interpreting the author’s intended meaning of Scripture. This book will feature some of the following unmovable and unchangeable principles:

• The revealed Word of God is the final arbiter of all truth, and contextualization of necessity must recognize the sacred inviolability of its truths.
• An inductive, inerrantist approach to contextualization accepts the paradoxical nature of all biblical truth and, thereby, the unchanging nature of scriptural principles.
• An evangelical contextualization of Scripture is conscious of the transformational character of the current hearer’s context. God’s Word transforms lives; therefore, every effort must be given to interpreting rightly, righteously, and presenting in the same way.
• While the content of biblical revelation is unchanging, the form in which it is presented is ever-changing. These two aspects—content and form—provide the indispensable core of contextualization.
• As a student of God’s written Word, one is equipping oneself to teach, preach, and present the living Word of God in a knowledgeable and approved way so that one might not be ashamed, discredited, or discarded.

The hope is that Critical Considerations for Biblical Hermeneutics is a significant step in equipping and understanding the interpretive processes of Scripture.

Print versions of this book are available on Amazon.