vol. 35, Issue #2

Online Journal Article:"THE METAPHYSICS OF BIBLICAL STUDIES" by FREDERICK SONTAG* JETS 35/2 (June 1992) 189-192

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/35/35-2/JETS_35-2_189-192_Sontag.pdf

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Complete article may be found here:
https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/35/35-2/JETS_35-2_189-192_Sontag.pdf

"THE METAPHYSICS OF BIBLICAL STUDIES" by
FREDERICK SONTAG*
JETS 35/2 (June 1992) 189-192

Excerpt:
Someone with fine historical perspective should write a history of the
various frameworks that have been used to interpret the Biblical texts.
From early times Roman Catholicism felt confident in treating the texts as
subject to external criteria. For all Luther made of the centrality of Scripture,
when he taught Scripture for the Roman Church before his break he
was free in his interpretation. It would be interesting to know how the
determiners of the canonical texts thought about how the texts might be
interpreted once established. In any case it is clear that there have been
numerous frameworks used to interpret Scripture, so that, unless we simply
assume that "the later the better," we need to understand all the approaches
that have been used so that we can make an informed choice
--from the first page of the article