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Original Meaning Phrase used in this course to mean the concepts, behaviors, and emotions that the divine and human writers jointly intended a biblical document to communicate to its first audience. |
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Philo Writer from Alexandria who is considered to be the originator of the allegorical approach to interpreting Scripture |
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Quadriga In early roman society it was a chariot drawn by four horses. In hermeneutics, it referred to an interpretive approach that considered a passage of Scripture to have four distinct meanings. |
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Romantic View of inspiration that believes that Scripture isn’t God’s infallible truth, but only the personal reflections and opinions of the human authors |
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Sensus Literalis 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. |
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Spiral 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. |
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Structuralism School of thought whose proponents tried to use rational and scientific objectivity to obtain an exhaustive understanding of everything they studied. |
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Subjectivism Approach to knowledge that believes that knowledge is always influenced by personal biases, making impartial objectivity impossible |
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