Sentences with phrase «premodern biblical exegesis»
The appeal to the «superiority» of premodern biblical exegesis is best understood as a protest against the reductionism inherent in the long - standing monopoly of the historical - critical method, not as a rejection of rigorous historical study of the Bible.
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Within the Church, «scientific» exegesis has often been regarded as the gold standard of serious biblical scholarship, and modern Christians are often as contemptuous of premodern allegory, figural exegesis, and typology as your neighborhood philosophe.