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Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

The rise of modernity, especially the European Enlightenment and its aftermath, has negatively impacted the way we understand the nature and interpretation of Christian Scripture. In this introduction to biblical interpretation, Craig Carter evaluates the problems of post-Enlightenment hermeneutics and offers an alternative approach: exegesis in harmony with the Great Tradition of Christian...

we have to try to manage as best we can by the human will exerted through technology. For the Christian Great Tradition, the world is “creation called out of nothing by Christ, on its way to its fulfillment in the New Heavens and New Earth.”40 Both versions of the nature of history cannot be correct, and no “dialectical” concept of history will suffice to reconcile them. The Great Tradition was a three-legged stool made up of spiritual exegesis,
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