Mid term

Question 1

What is the Bible?

Answer 1

1. Triune God Who Gives Written Word
2. Written Word Itself
3. The people who receive the written word

Question 2

Hermeneutics

Answer 2

Study of whole movement involved in interpreting a passages meaning and applying it to today

Question 3

Interpretation

Answer 3

The act or process by which one determines the verbal or written communication

Question 4

Meaning

Answer 4

-“the communicative intention of the author,

which has been inscribed in the text and

addressed to the intended audience”

Question 5

Intention

Answer 5

A purpose that has to be accomplished by certain means

Question 6

Deconstruction

Answer 6

Text does not have a stable meaning and therefore should be deconstructed

Question 7

Reader-Response Criticism

Answer 7

an approach to reading according to
which readers should actively participate in constructing the meaning
of a text

Question 8

Special issues in theological hermeneutics

Answer 8

1. Divine Authorship and the coherence of scripture
2. Unity of OT and NT
3. Relationship between Revelation and Reason
4. Relationship between revelation and tradition
5. Scripture and Divine Aseity

Question 9

Glosses

Answer 9

Marginal notes providing explanation of a text

Question 10

Catenae

Answer 10

Compilations of notes and comments

Question 11

Postillae

Answer 11

ongoing commentaries of the bible passed down and supplemented in schools

Question 12

Quadriga

Answer 12

Fourfould sense of scripture

Question 13

Literal (or historical) Sense

Answer 13

The element of meaning focused on what the words scripture ordinarily

Question 14

Allegorical sense

Answer 14

the element of meaning focused on the spiritual things that are signified by the things that the words of Scripture signify

Question 15

Tropological Sense

Answer 15

the element of meaning focused on the text’s moral requirements

Question 16

analogical sense

Answer 16

element of meaning focused on our future hope