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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...

and helpful ways that God’s faithful and corrective leading accompanies and underwrites our communal and tradition-laden locations and influences these at every point and turn. Nevertheless, there remains an influential contingent of Enlightenment epistemological ideals that descry these influences and continue to distort our understanding of the act of reading the Bible. An initial goal of this work is to survey a range of contemporary proposals; to both demonstrate the continuing bias of this idealism
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