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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...

God is not summoned into the presence of reason; reason is summoned into the presence of God. John Webster1 This chapter is foundational to my entire proposal. If academic hermeneutics is to be reformed so as to become an adequate basis for the preaching and teaching ministry of healthy, growing churches, it must be reformed on a theological basis. But what does this mean? One thing it must mean is that the role of philosophy in hermeneutics must be secondary to
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