How Jürgen Moltmann Reads and Interprets the Bible (January 31, 2017)

How do we know that we understand the Bible when we read it? The word "hermeneutics" refers to the way we read and interpret the Bible, and if our hermeneutical approach is wrong, then we will not understand the Bible. Often disagreements in theology come down to people reading the […]

Related: Church Dogmatics, hermeneutics, Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth, Martin Luther, material criticism, matter of Scripture, Sachkritik, Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas

N.T. Wright on Unscholary Scholars and Sachkritik (Material Criticism) (November 13, 2015)

In N.T. Wright's newly published book, Paul and His Recent Interpreters: Some Contemporary Debates, he provides a fascinating critique of Sachkritik (material criticism) and those scholars who use it. Sachkritik is the german word for material criticism (or subject criticism), which is the attempt by scholars to separate the subject (Sache) from the form […]

Related: A Theology of the New Testament, C.H. Dodd, n.t. wright, Paul and His Recent Interpreters, Rudolf Bultmann, Sachkritik