The Roots of Scientific Bible Criticism
This article shows that scientific criticism of the Bible is a particular way of thinking that is founded on methodological doubt, inherited from Rene Descartes’ philosophical concept, and is applied to historical-critical interpretation of the Bible by means of three principles: criticism, analogy...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Eastern European Instute of Theology
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя |
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| Online Access: | http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/article/view/87972 |
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| Summary: | This article shows that scientific criticism of the Bible is a particular way of thinking that is founded on methodological doubt, inherited from Rene Descartes’ philosophical concept, and is applied to historical-critical interpretation of the Bible by means of three principles: criticism, analogy, and correlation (E.Troeltsch). The exegetical practice that results from this concept is characterized by such elements as methodological atheism; the assessment of the Bible as a product of human thinking; the assumption of evolutionary development of thought; and the separation of truth and reality. In the second part of the article this approach is evaluated in the light of the object of interpretation itself: the Bible. The author concludes that historical-critical interpretation, in its roots and in its essential elements, contradicts its object of research, the Bible itself, and therefore cannot serve as an acceptable method of exegesis of the Holy Scriptures. |
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| ISSN: | 2789-1569 2789-1577 |