URL: http://ttpstudents.com/papers/ets/2005/Caldwell/Caldwell.html

Summary:
by Larry W. Caldwell
2005

Today we are on the cusp of a revolution in Bible reading and interpretation not unlike the last revolution regarding the Bible that occurred during the Reformation. Note carefully that this new revolution has little to do with the many and varied alternatives that have arisen over the past thirty years to the tried and true historical-critical approach to the Bible. These alternatives-- some good and some not so good--have tended to distract evangelical scholars into debates on the merits of one approach over another, all the while causing us to miss out on the beginnings of the revolutionary shift from one dominant Bible reading and interpretation paradigm to another totally different paradigm. Indeed, this new revolution concerns the very way that the Bible itself is perceived, or will be perceived, by the generations of the twenty-first century for whom the concept of a book as a textual document will become increasingly obsolete..

Category: Biblical Theology

Tags: Interpretation, Bible Reading, Bible, Hermeneutics