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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...

the dominant metaphysical account of reality in Western culture today. The amazing thing about the so-called Enlightenment is that its adherents droned on endlessly about “reason” and yet ended up eventually undermining it. When we look around us, we see a society that views rational proofs for the existence of God as silly and is in rebellion against the natural moral law.49 Christian Platonism is not even upheld by most modern theologians and, incredibly, not even by all evangelical ones. All too
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