Contemporary hermeneutics, including biblical hermeneutics, are held hostage to the myths of principles and to a ?text versus reader? framework. This is reinforced by lingering investments in distinctly modern notions of objectivity that emerge from and are dependent upon an essentially deistic worldview. The perceived gap between us and the source of meaning, the human
Read moreWhat Does It Mean for Scripture to be ?Inspired? or ?God-Breathed??
Theopneustos, ?God-breathed.? The term theopneustos is built from the words theos (?God? or?god?) and pne? (?to blow,? ?to breathe out?) and is not a common word in Greek literature. (Some interpreters contest the derivation from pne?, preferring the closely related verb empne? as the source verb.) Theopneustos was first used regarding wisdom in general and
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