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Rendering the Word in Theological Hermeneutics: Mapping Divine and Human Agency is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the relationship between divine and human agency in the interpretation of Scripture? Differing schools of thought often fail to address this key question, overemphasizing or ignoring one or the other. When the divine inspiration of Scripture is overemphasized, the varied roles of human authors tend to become muted in our approach the text. Conversely, when we think of the Bible almost...

Dupre’s suggestion, it is only when tradition is relativized and abstracted with respect to its prior perceived location within the milieu of God’s gracious action that the possibility of denying or misconstruing the nature of its authoritative role in relation to the reading of Scripture becomes a live option. The inclination of the enlightenment epistemological tradition that has concerned us here is the eclipse of God’s agency in the perception of the task of reading Scripture. This development
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