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He is currently adjunct professor at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto. He is notable for developing the "redemptive-movement" hermeneutic in his book Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis (2001). This book argues for full role equality of men and women in the church and family while concluding that ...
Trajectory hermeneutics or redemptive-movement hermeneutics is a hermeneutical approach that seeks to locate varying 'voices' in the text and to view these voices as a progressive trajectory through history (or at least through the biblical witness); often a trajectory that progresses through to the present day.
William J. Webb, Canadian egalitarian theologian known for his 'redemptive-movement' hermeneutic; William Seward Webb (1851–1926), American doctor, financier, railroad president, and well-connected businessperson; William Snyder Webb (1882–1964), American anthropologist; William Trego Webb (1847–1934), educationist and author
Advocates of redemptive-historical preaching do believe application is necessary. However, the main controversy surrounding this preaching method is the question whether or not using the characters of the Bible as moral exemplars for the believers today diminishes Christ as the center of the text.
Reader-centered methods are diverse, including canonical criticism, confessional hermeneutics, and contextual hermeneutics. Nevertheless, the historical-grammatical method shares with reader-centered methods the interest in understanding the text as it became received by the earliest interpretive communities and throughout the history of Bible ...
His "redemptive movement" hermeneutic is justified using the example of slavery, which Webb sees as analogous to the subordination of women. Christians today largely perceive that slavery was "cultural" in biblical times and not something that should be re-introduced or justified, although slavery was (a) found in the Bible and (b) not ...
G 784. Hermeneutics: From the Bible to the Reformation. G 785. Theological Method and Hermeneutics from Schleiermacher to Gadamer. G 789. Seminar: Western and Eastern Catholic Theologians. TP 500/501. Cult/Occult. TP 600. Foundations of Biblical Theology: Theology of Promise. TP 602. Doctrine of Creation, Covenant, and Redemption. TP 603.
It also makes it clear that the signers deny "that Biblical infallibility and inerrancy are limited to spiritual, religious, or redemptive themes, exclusive of assertions in the fields of history and science. We further deny that scientific hypotheses about earth history may properly be used to overturn the teaching of Scripture on creation and ...