C-1.2. HERMENEUTICS OF CONSENT In the nineteenth century historical criticism increasingly claimed to be an objective discipline, in distinction from the church that was weighed down by centuries of tradition and dogma. But there has been growing recognition of the fact that there can be no interpretation of texts without presuppositions. Modern hermeneutical theory, especially as influenced by the work of H.-G. Gadamer (1975; see the detailed discussion in Thiselton 1980 and a helpful summary in