Have We Been Teaching the Wrong Method of Biblical Interpretation?: Emerging Ministry Perspectives

The historical-critical method creates barriers to theological reflection on Scripture and its hermeneutical and literary assumptions have been rejected in other fields. Yet it continues to be the dominant method taught in most theological schools. A number of scholars are proposing either postmodern approaches or recovering premodern methods of interpretation. What would best serve the church?

Arthur Walker-Jones is the United Church of Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Theology and Professor of Biblical Literature at the University of Winnipeg. He has a PhD in Biblical Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary and is the author of Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation (SBL, 2003) and The Green Psalter: Resources for an Ecological Spirituality (Fortress, 2009).

Emerging Perspectives in Ministry event. May 9, 2018.