Interpretive Models

• Paradigms• Lenses• Grids• Ways of understanding • “hermeneutic”

Interpretive Models

The Interpretive Grid – Martens

Psalms of Orientation – Brueggemann

Wiki-stories – McKnight

Redemptive-Movement Hermeneutic – Webb Trajectory hermeneutic Developmental/progressive, etc.

The Interpretive Grid

1. OT Scholar, Elmer Martens

2. From within Scripture itself

3. Narrative, story-driven in nature

4. Uses the story of Israel as a “hermeneutic”

Psalms of Orientation

1. OT Scholar, Walter Brueggemann

2. Socio-rhetorical approach

3. What is the experience of the writers?

4. What is the experience of the “users”?

5. Orientation – Disorientation – Reorientation

Redemptive-Movement

1. NT Scholar, William Webb2. How do we apply texts embedded within

cultural contexts different than our own?3. “Ultimate ethic” is defined outside of

Scripture itself.

Wesleyan Quadrilateral

As much a means of discernment and Christian decision making as interpretive model for Scripture. • Scripture• Reason• Tradition• Experience