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The Holy Spirit’s work of conveying a proper understanding of Scripture to a human being

Theological 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

Philosopher who proposed that all knowledge involves both objective perception and subjective processing through our mental concepts that already exist in our minds

View of inspiration that believes that the Holy Spirit essentially dictated the Bible and that the human writers passively recorded what He said

Approach to knowledge that believes it is possible to arrive at impartial knowledge

View 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

View of inspiration that believes that Scripture isn’t God’s infallible truth, but only the personal reflections and opinions of the human authors

The 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.

In 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. 

School of thought whose proponents tried to use rational and scientific objectivity to obtain an exhaustive understanding of everything they studied.