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Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation seeks to identify and clarify the basic problems of interpretation that affect our reading of the Bible today. This unique volume provides a comprehensive and systematic coverage of the field of general hermeneutics. Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation examines the impact of specific academic disciplines on the interpretation of the Bible....

CLEAR OR OBSCURE? It is no exaggeration to say that the sixteenth-century Reformation was, at bottom, a hermeneutical revolution. Luther’s meeting with Cardinal Cajetan at Augsburg in 1518 developed into a discussion of Unigenitus (a papal bull published in 1343), which asserted the notion of a treasury of merits. In response Luther wrote a statement in which he refused “to discard so many important clear proofs of Scripture on account of a
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