If you are reading this, it is because you expect it to have
meaning. You will be making assumptions about its author based on
the content and context; you will be interpreting what you read in
the light of your own prejudices and experience and the
conditioning of your cultural surroundings. Does it matter what the
author intended? Does an unintentional message have validity? Is
there a single meaning of the text, or one on which we should all
agree? These questions are obviously much more significant when the
text concerned is the Bible, which Christians believe to be the
word of God. In the face of claims that Evangelical biblical
interpretation is based on principles which have nothing to do with
Christian theology, this Study explores the philosophical integrity
of the quest for meaning in a text, and discusses the benefi ts and
pitfalls of the various tools we might bring to the task of
interpretation. It draws inspiration from Scripture's own methods
as the Old Testament is applied in New Testament writings, to give
a Christian theological account of hermeneutics. The Revd Dr
Benjamin Sargent is Assistant Curate in the Parish of Warblington
with Emsworth in Hampshire and a Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall,
University of Oxford. His Oxford University DPhil was on the use of
authorial intention in the New Testament and contemporary
theological interpretation of Scripture. He is the author of
numerous scholarly articles on biblical interpretation published in
Churchman, Evangelical Quarterly and the Heythrop Journal.
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