IlluminationThe Holy Spirit’s work of conveying a proper understanding of Scripture to a human being |
InspirationTheological term used to refer to the way in which the Holy Spirit moved human beings to write God’s revelation as Scripture and superintended their work in a way that made their writings infallible |
KantPhilosopher who proposed that all knowledge involves both objective perception and subjective processing through our mental concepts that already exist in our minds |
MechanicalView of inspiration that believes that the Holy Spirit essentially dictated the Bible and that the human writers passively recorded what He said |
ObjectivismApproach to knowledge that believes it is possible to arrive at impartial knowledge |
OrganicView of inspiration that believes that the Holy Spirit used the personalities, experiences, outlooks, and intentions of human authors as he supervised and directed their writing |
RomanticView of inspiration that believes that Scripture isn’t God’s infallible truth, but only the personal reflections and opinions of the human authors |
Sensus LiteralisThe theologians of the Middle Ages in Europe used this term to speak of the original meaning of Scripture. Thomas Aquinas made a distinction between this and the "allegorical" sense. |
SpiralIn hermeneutics, this term is used to explain how we can progressively gain a better understanding of Scripture as we continue to dialog with the text. |
StructuralismSchool of thought whose proponents tried to use rational and scientific objectivity to obtain an exhaustive understanding of everything they studied. |