Biblical hermeneutics : five views

327 Pages·2012·3.25 MB·English

by  Stanley E.

FIVE VIEWS
EDITED B Y Stanley E. Porter & Beth M. Stovell
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY Craig L. Blomberg, Richard B. Gaffin Jr.,
F. Scott Spencer, Robert W. Wall & Merold Westphal

Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Introduction: Trajectories in Biblical Hermeneutics . . . . . . . 9
Stanley E. Porter and Beth M. Stovell
PART ONE: FIVE VIEWS OF BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS
1. THE HISTORICAL-CRITICAL/GRAMMATICAL VIEW . . . 27
Craig L. Blomberg
2. THE LITERARY/POSTMODERN VIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
F. Scott Spencer
3. THE PHILOSOPHICAL/THEOLOGICAL VIEW . . . . . . . . 70
Merold Westphal
4. THE REDEMPTIVE-HISTORICAL VIEW . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Richard B. Gaffin Jr.
5. THE CANONICAL VIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Robert W. Wall
PART TWO: RESPONSES
6. THE HISTORICAL-CRITICAL/GRAMMATICAL RESPONSE 133
Craig L. Blomberg
7. THE LITERARY/POSTMODERN RESPONSE . . . . . . . . . 146
F. Scott Spencer
8. THE PHILOSOPHICAL/THEOLOGICAL RESPONSE .. . . . 160
Merold Westphal
9. THE REDEMPTIVE-HISTORICAL RESPONSE . . . . . . . . 174
Richard B. Gaffin Jr.
10. THE CANONICAL RESPONSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Robert W. Wall
Interpreting Together: Synthesizing Five Views of Biblical Hermeneutics . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Stanley E. Porter and Beth M. Stovell
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Name and Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Scripture Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

W would like to extend our thanks to all of our contributors, Craig Blomberg,
Richard Gaffin, Scott Spencer, Robert Wall and Merold Westphal, for sharing
their time and insight on this project. We realize that producing a volume such as
this is in some ways more difficult than others, because it requires not only that
the contributors write to particular specifications but also that they do so to
specific deadlines, and that they do this twice, once in submitting their major
position paper and again in response to the work of their fellow contributors. We
appreciate their attention to deadlines and details. We also wish to thank Dan
Reid at InterVarsity Press for his editorial supervision on this project in the
Spectrum series. We believe that InterVarsity Press has done an excellent job in
promoting a series that addresses important issues in serious ways, admitting to
the existence and encouraging discussion of disparate and challenging
viewpoints.
Stan would like to thank his wife, Wendy, for her extraordinary support and
encouragement during the completion of this project. Those who know us will
know that this project was being completed at a time when it was uncertain how
not only this project but also life itself would unfold. God has proven himself to
be faithful, gracious and loving throughout-not that he needed to prove himself
to us or to anyone else. God certainly made the truth of 1 Corinthians 10:13
come to life in a vivid and affirming way. Stan would also like to thank Beth
Stovell for being willing to undertake this project together and for her carrying
the major burden of correspondence with the authors and organizing the
electronic paperwork as it came together. It has been a pleasure to work together,
and Stan wishes her congratulations on her new position at St. Thomas
University. Stan finally wishes to thank his colleagues, as well as his excellent
Ph.D. students (of whom Beth began as one), at McMaster Divinity College not
only for providing a unique and rewarding environment for serving as president