What Have They Done to the Bible?: A History of Modern Biblical InterpretationLiturgical Press, 2005 - 378 σελίδες Why have so many scholars ceased to believe in a type of inspiration that distinguishes the Bible from every other book? Why is fundamentalism so unsatisfying to modern people? This history of biblical interpretation from 1500 to the present answers these questions by showing how biblical scholarship has developed under the influence of internal and external factors. In What Have They Done to the Bible John Sandys-Wunsch documents the changes that have taken place in biblical exegesis since 1500 and accounts for the major reasons for these changes. Answering the question of why fundamentalism is unsatisfying to modern people, Sandys-Wunsch maintains that this development was the result of occurrences both within and outside biblical interpretation. The internal" developments consisted of work on the textual tradition, biblical languages, and the recognition of wider problems such as consistency, cogency, and coherence within biblical documents. *External - factors were the development of secular society, tolerance, academic freedom, a perceived dichotomy between the Bible and science, and information about human culture in general, both past and present. He concludes that after the Renaissance it was the application of historical considerations to both the internal and external factors of the biblical tradition that was the main source of the modern approach to the Bible. The Rev. Dr. John Sandys-Wunsch, D.S.Litt., D.Phil., formerly a university professor and administrator in Canada and England, is a research fellow at the University of Victoria. " |
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... religious — a panoply of human beings who had in common a concern with explaining the Bible , and sometimes little else . The way the Bible has come to be seen in the Western world since the beginning of the modern period is one of the ...
... religious or secular , and to what extent ? If it has an established church , is it Roman Catholic , Lutheran , Reformed , or Anglican ? ii . Means for the dissemination of ideas : Does a country have an estab- lished printing industry ...
... religious imagery , historical " To be fair , the comparison and correction of manuscripts had existed long before this in both the Jewish and the Christian traditions . What was new was the extent to which even important variants which ...
... religion based on a firm sense of the impossibility of miracles combined with a sense of the deceit used by those who had a vested interest in promoting religion . Somewhat later , Spinoza based his mature opinion about the Bible on his ...
... religious systems are mistaken remains a belief . The problem of defining religion in contrast to irreligion , then , is that it is hard to say when a particular type of concern falls over into the category of religious belief ; for ...