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Whose Community? Which Interpretation? Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, renowned philosopher Merold Westphal introduces current philosophical thinking related to interpreting the Bible. Recognizing that no theology is completely free of philosophical “contamination,” he engages and mines contemporary hermeneutical theory in service of the church. After providing a historical overview of contemporary theories of interpretation, Westphal addresses...

hypothetico-deductive method of the natural sciences (VI 261, 264).8 But Hirsch’s primary focus is on the goal of interpretation and the nature of the object that alone can satisfy that goal. The goal is “universally valid” or “absolutely valid” interpretation (VI 12, viii). This type of interpretation should give us “the meaning of the text” (VI 5). This does not mean absolute certainty. As in the natural sciences, here we are in a realm of fallibility and probability. We sometimes get it wrong,
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