These standards have been muddled despite the best intentions of the authors who originally penned them. (thoughtco.com)
The criterion is not the original intention of the author as such but the intention of the Holy Spirit. (religion-online.org)
This approach, which is associated with Karl Barth, Jacques Ellul, and Wilhelm Vischer, among others, and which also has certain affinities with the confessional stances of Gerhard van Rad and Brevard Childs, seeks to supplement the historical - critical method by theological exegesis in which the innermost intentions of the author are related to the center and culmination of sacred history mirrored in the Bible, namely, the advent of Jesus Christ. (religion-online.org)