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When speaking of divine revelation, it means that God designed the message to be understood by the original audience in their own context.

Approach to interpreting Scripture that interprets people, places, things and events as if they were symbols or metaphors for spiritual truths.

It refers to the way God sometimes speaks or behaves in ways that seem almost human.

In hermeneutics it refers to appropriately connecting the original meaning of a biblical document to contemporary audiences in ways that impact their concepts, behaviors and emotions. 

The "father of modern science"

The "father of modern rationalism"

Approach to interpreting Scripture that involves a type of conversation between the reader and the text, coming to understand it better and better

Theological term for the process of analyzing a Bible passage. It means literally to "lead out" the meaning.

Phrase used in this course to mean the total significance of a text, consisting of its original meaning, all its biblical elaborations, and all its legitimate applications 

He invented the printing press in the 15th century.