The Post-modern Way

The post-modern way is to look at scrip­ture as writ­ings of dif­fer­ent per­sons at dif­fer­ent times address­ing their par­tic­u­lar cir­cum­stances and needs. Dis­ci­plines such as source crit­i­cism, his­tor­i­cal crit­i­cism, tex­tual crit­i­cism, exe­ge­sis and her­menu­tics are employed in the study of scrip­ture. Scrip­tures are con­sid­ered to be rel­a­tive to their intended audi­ence and need to be made rel­e­vant to their intended audi­ence today. Another process, is to view the nar­ra­tive world of scrip­ture and under­stand the real­ity it depicts and look at how things are “true or real” within that nar­ra­tive world. It’s the schol­arly, aca­d­e­mic approach which does not rule out faith. Beliefs may change, but faith remains strong.


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