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  2. Biblical hermeneutics - Wikipedia

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    Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning ... The Catholic Church asserts the capital importance of biblical interpretation ...

  3. Hermeneutics - Wikipedia

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    The early patristic traditions of biblical exegesis had few unifying characteristics in the beginning but tended toward unification in later schools of biblical hermeneutics. Augustine offers hermeneutics and homiletics in his De doctrina christiana. He stresses the importance of humility in the study of Scripture.

  4. New hermeneutic - Wikipedia

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    Theologians such as Cornelius Van Til were strong opponents of New hermeneutics whereas Johannes Blauw was a proponent of New hermeneutics. [3] [4] Blauw's work, for example, focused on the interpretation of the Bible in the context of the modern world although he was critical of overly rationalistic approaches to biblical interpretation and sought to emphasize the importance of understanding ...

  5. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

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    In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...

  6. Historical-grammatical method - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Theological hermeneutics - Wikipedia

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    Christian theological hermeneutics dates from Philo and Origen, [3] and Reformers like Martin Luther using the distinction between the Law and the Gospel [4] and John Calvin using the ideal of brevitas et facilitas [5] [6] It often has a strong connection to biblical hermeneutics, studying the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible as a basis for theologizing.

  8. Hermeneutic circle - Wikipedia

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    Hermeneutic circle. The hermeneutic circle (German: hermeneutischer Zirkel) describes the process of understanding a text hermeneutically.It refers to the idea that one's understanding of the text as a whole is established by reference to the individual parts and one's understanding of each individual part by reference to the whole.

  9. Hermeneutics of faith - Wikipedia

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    During his October 14, 2008, address to the Synod of Bishops, Pope Benedict XVI cautioned, [W]here the hermeneutics of faith…disappear, another type of hermeneutics will appear by necessity — a hermeneutics that is secularist, positivist, the key fundamental of which is the conviction that the divine does not appear in human history.