Publication Date

5-1971

Advisor(s) - Committee Chair

Ronald Nash

Degree Program

Department of Philosophy & Religion

Degree Type

Master of Arts

Abstract

In this paper we will examine, in survey fashion the hermeneutical programs formulated by supernatural orthodoxy,1 the natural religion school,2 and the attempts to find an alternative to these in the post-Enlightenment period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A preliminary overview is in order to map out the direction of the discussion and to suggest a common uncritical assumption held by all major programs, viz, the use of non-biblical literary models for interpreting the immanent character of the Scriptures.

1. Orthodoxy has reference to the Protestant interpretation of the Bible which accepted the possibility of divine intervention into history. This intervention included the miraculous activity of God on behalf of his people and the communication of information to his inspired writers.

2. The natural religion school denied the miraculous intervention of God preferring a rational description of the world in terms of unbreakable laws derived from science.

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Biblical Studies | Christian Denominations and Sects | Christianity | Comparative Methodologies and Theories | History of Christianity | Religion | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

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