Two Ground Rules For Epistolary Hermeneutics

Chapter four focuses on a broader sense of hermeneutics, a far less exact science. The principle matter in interpreting epistles is concerned with determining what should be relegated to the first century as opposed to divine truth. Going around certain text that that conflicts with prior convictions should be avoided. The two ground rules for epistolary hermeneutics are: A text cannot mean what it never could have meant to its author or their readers, whenever we share comparable situations as the original readers, God’s message to us is the same. While it is kind of difficult to extend the application when the situations are similar, it is more challenging to handle passages wherever they are dissimilar. Careful exegesis can reveal an underlying