By David R. Law
The time period refers to a number of methodologies which research the origins of biblical texts, when it comes to different contemporaneous texts, to shape severe ways and to questions of authorship, viewers and authenticty. the purpose is to get as as regards to the ‘original textual content' and its ‘original which means' as attainable. for a few years old severe process has been the cornerstone upon which biblical scholarship is outfitted, whilst sleek reports study different theoretical ways to studying the textual content in background, culture, and from diversified viewers views the ancient severe process nonetheless offers the the most important place to begin for college kids and students.
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The task was no longer to pass beyond the literal meaning to an allegedly higher, spiritual meaning, but to trace how the literal meaning of the text expresses and mediates Christ’s saving work. This led to an increasing consciousness of Scripture as the witness to God’s acts in history rather than as a compendium of spiritual truths. 69 His Clavis scripturae sacrae (1567) marks an important contribution to the development of Protestant hermeneutics. Written in response to the Council of Trent, Flacius’s work sought to counter the Roman Catholic rejection of the Protestant principle that Scripture alone is the sufficient source of divine revelation.
In his On the Scriptures and Didascalion, Hugh emphasized the need to pay greater attention to the literal meaning of the biblical text, although he still saw literal interpretation only as a springboard for the use of allegorical interpretation, which remained necessary in order to unlock the deeper spiritual resources of Scripture. 54 Perhaps the most important development in biblical scholarship in the Middle Ages, however, was the influence of Aristotle. Since Augustine, the dominant philosophy within Western Christianity had been Platonism, which understood universals to possess real existence, independent of the particulars in which they appear in the concrete world.
Indeed, to remain at the surface meaning of the text was a sign of an unspiritual nature and was appropriate only for simple believers incapable of grasping deeper spiritual truths. The spiritually advanced, however, endeavoured by means of allegorical interpretation to advance beyond the literal meaning of the text to the divine mysteries concealed within it. Although the dominance of the allegorical method retarded the development of historical criticism, there were some hints of historical approaches to biblical interpretation in the early Church.