Given the choice between the canon of scripture and
modern principles of interpretation, I have no question where to camp, but I am, to a large degree, challenged by what looks like a major disconnect between modern scholarly discipline and the understanding of our ancestors in the faith.
Holding a homemade «Dan is Awesome» sign outside the Welcome to Dayton sign in order to literally praise my husband at the city gate (Proverbs 31:32) «disregards
basic principles of interpretation,» they say, and is not how most Christians interpret or apply that passage.
However that may be, the sustained labours of generations of early biblical scholars gradually established certain broad
controlling principles of interpretation; and these ultimately crystallized into a general schema, by which the study of the Bible was henceforth to be directed.
It will not be as simple as it sounds, for the ambiguity that characterizes the Bible as a whole also characterizes its
internal principle of interpretation, the biblical picture of Jesus himself.
As a spokesman for the national covenant, Reston applies a
polar principle of interpretation when he speaks to those who hold political power, particularly presidents: his premise or «hermeneutic» is that of skepticism and pity.
Responding faithfully to the trans - temporal magisterium of the Church (and not simply to the magisterium of one's own times) requires holding in view two
other principles of interpretation.
This means finding a
common principle of interpretation to handle such divergent strands as the new history and its consequent historicism, romantic poetry from Blake to Goethe, Darwin and evolutionism, Hegel and the Hegelian left, Marx and Marxism, psychoanalysis, the many varieties of more recent literature including such divergent figures as Dostoevsky, Strindberg and Baudelaire, and, of course, Nietzsche himself.
Against this statutory language, Lord Neuberger considered it to be clear that a lessee under a lease which includes the flat and other premises is a qualifying tenant, «according to the
ordinary principles of interpretation», unless there is any clear indication to the contrary.
Applying the «
modern principle of interpretation» to the construction of the Condominium bylaws (at para 12), Justice Stevens reviewed the purpose statement in Article 65 as part of the context for interpreting Article 62 (a)(iv).
Wishing to let Scripture remain totally authoritative and infallible in faith and life, Jewett appeals to a second
Reformation principle of interpretation - namely, that Scripture must be understood in light of other Scripture.
Two disciplines that have often in the past pretended lack of awareness of each other, dogmatics and exegesis, now share a preoccupation
with principles of interpretation.
In interpreting his biblical texts Bultmann made use of these ideas with a vigor which promises that his
basic principles of interpretation may survive, still seem valid, when the misty vocabulary of Heidegger's early philosophy no longer seems compelling.
To ignore
these principles of interpretation is to distort the text just as much as if you ignored the principle of reading poetry as poetry with all the rich meaning of figurative language and chose rather to read it like it was a science text book.
We are much more humane the the societies which produced the bible, so it will likely also mean that, using that
principle of interpretation, we'll also get something entirely different than the original authors intended.
This is a much needed corrective to those who have adopted the historical / critical method not only as a tool but also as
their principle of interpretation (or «hermeneutic principle», in theological jargon).
If the teacher prefers to teach myth as myth, without demythologizing, he can apply
the principle of interpretation which Crombie suggests as a basis for discussion.
Since Art 23 was a provision that allowed a defendant to be sued in a member state other than that of his domicile, the defendants placed particular reliance on the second of
those principles of interpretation.
[26] These rules and
principles of interpretation have led this Court to conclude that the Constitution should be viewed as having an «internal architecture», or «basic constitutional structure.»
It is based on Elmer Dreidger's modern
principle of interpretation.