EXPLORING THE PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS IN TWO BIBLICALLY-BASED HOMILIES

Abstract

The primary concern of this article is an issue of a hermeneutical nature: What is the appropriate way of interpreting Scripture? How do we approach and construe it? Do we “dismiss certain rigorous [moral] demands with the magic phrase of ‘time conditioned’”?1 But is it not that historically conditioned assertions of faith are precisely the concern of the whole historical-critical enterprise? Is it not the case that the historical-critical method is precisely concerned with the original historical circumstances surrounding the initial articulation of any theological statement?