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
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