Interpretation Approaches Flashcards
What is the Canon within the Canon approach?
Readers are invited to sift through the biblical texts in search of what they may find useful and valuable as a source of ethical guidance in their lives.
What is the paradigmatic approach?
Biblical material provided us with broad general principles that guide us in our ethical decision-making and establishes a standard to which we can appeal in order to justify the correctness of the position taken or to test the propriety of an action performed or contemplated.
What is the canonical approach?
Scripture is viewed as a vast canvas in which the individual details are not as significant as the picture as a whole and offensive passages are only considered problematic when read alone.
What is that allegorical approach?
Assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense as opposed to the literal sense.
What is the reader response approach?
In this approach the reader asks lots of questions and has a conversation with the text asking questions like what is the text saying, what is the text saying to me, and what I’m saying to the text.
What is the evolutionary approach?
The evolutionary approach states that we’ve evolved over time to a higher moral standard.
What is the cultural relativist approach?
The cultural relativist approach differs from the evolutionary approach in the sense that society has not evolved to a higher moral standard, but rather, moral standards have only changed (not necessarily gotten better).
