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I read the article through and found it informative, concise, and scholarly -- an excellent apologetic supporting a Biblical hermeneutic. The historical summary is a good point of departure for further study, because the fundamental error of Christendom has been of choosing the wrong methods for translation and interpretation, leading to confusion in matters which the Koine Greek made crystal clear to the thoughts of those who employed it as a matter of daily life, and only needed a discipler (didaskalos) trained to explain the articles common to The Faith of The Christ.

I ran across a fine lesson plan giving a brief summary of the shifts in hermeneutics, to which I refer you:

Bible 405: HERMENEUTICS-THE STUDY OF THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURES

(A downloadable PDF file from the Chafer Theological Seminary)

"HIGHLIGHTS IN THE HISTORY OF HERMENEUTICS" starts on page 23 -- complements the treatment in this article.

Thanks for your thoughtfulness in providing this poat!

[wmfights]

I read the article through and found it informative, concise, and scholarly -- an excellent apologetic supporting a Biblical hermeneutic.

I'm glad you found it worth reading. I had the same thought.

The historical summary is a good point of departure for further study, because the fundamental error of Christendom has been of choosing the wrong methods for translation and interpretation, leading to confusion in matters which the Koine Greek made crystal clear to the thoughts of those who employed it as a matter of daily life, and only needed a discipler (didaskalos) trained to explain the articles common to The Faith of The Christ.

Here is a point of departure for us. It seems pretty clear to me that as a hierarchical system began to dominate and the the church-state model emerged that those who embraced these changes were the ones who abandoned literal interpretation. I doubt these would be the churches to trust on interpretation.