Post by RayW on May 19, 2013 6:40:27 GMT -8
Please post your answers to the following questions:
1. Before this session, how would you have described your hermeneutic?
2. How important do you think that knowledge of the history of hermeneutics is? Explain.
3. The statement was made in class that while the Scriptures were inspired, this does not necessarily mean that the writers of Scripture used an inspired method of interpretation. Discuss the problems and merits of this way of thinking.
4. Do you think that it is possible that the apostles like Matthew used a valid typological hermeneutic in which they were able to see a “hidden” underlying Christological fulfillment of some text because they were inspired, while you and I cannot use the same hermeneutic today? Explain.
5. Why do you think it was and is so common in the early Church for people to say that inspired Scripture has a “second” meaning that goes beyond the literal?
6. Further discuss the dangers of using the allegorical method of interpretation.
7. How has this lesson most challenged your thinking?
1. Before this session, how would you have described your hermeneutic?
2. How important do you think that knowledge of the history of hermeneutics is? Explain.
3. The statement was made in class that while the Scriptures were inspired, this does not necessarily mean that the writers of Scripture used an inspired method of interpretation. Discuss the problems and merits of this way of thinking.
4. Do you think that it is possible that the apostles like Matthew used a valid typological hermeneutic in which they were able to see a “hidden” underlying Christological fulfillment of some text because they were inspired, while you and I cannot use the same hermeneutic today? Explain.
5. Why do you think it was and is so common in the early Church for people to say that inspired Scripture has a “second” meaning that goes beyond the literal?
6. Further discuss the dangers of using the allegorical method of interpretation.
7. How has this lesson most challenged your thinking?