Key Words, Chapter 1

Question 1

Aesthetic theology

Answer 1

mere literary study of Scripture

Question 2

Alexandrian School

Answer 2

interpretive approach that preferred allegorical to historical interpretation

Question 3

Antiochene School

Answer 3

interpretive approach that preferred historical to allegorical interpretation

Question 4

Dual authorship

Answer 4

human and divine authorship of Scripture

Question 5

Eisegesis

Answer 5

reading one’s preferred meaning into the text

Question 6

Exegesis

Answer 6

deriving one’s interpretation from the text

Question 7

Fourfold sense of Scripture

Answer 7

method of medieval exegesis that pursued the literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical sense of Scripture

Question 8

Hermeneutics

Answer 8

discipline concerned with the proper theory and practice of textual interpretation

Question 9

Hermeneutic of perception

Answer 9

interpretive approach that prizes careful listening to the text

Question 10

Historical-critical method

Answer 10

interpretive approach whose primary concern is the assessment of the historicity of events recorded in Scripture, often with negative results

Question 11

Scriptura sui interpres

Answer 11

Reformation dictum that Scripture is its own best interpreter