hermeneutics?

[longdistancerunner]

I know a CoC preacher who got a Ph.D. and now teaches classes in hermeneutics. In terms of the CoC what is this, is it similar to apologetics? Thanks!

[Ivy]

I think I kind of know, but I am going to google it...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics

[zeek]

A hermeneutic is a method of interpreting the Bible. The standard hermeneutic of the coC is C.E.N.I., Command, Example, and Necessary Inference. I remember there was an uproar in this area back in the late 80s because several very educated, prominent coC preachers declared a need for a new hermeneutic. Sadly, at that point in time, I was so drunk on the kool aid I never even considered that they might be right and have no idea to this day what their proposed hermeneutic was. It caused a lot of pearl clutching and venomous rhetoric but got no traction in this conservative, backwards area.

[Ivy]

Interesting that a cofc preacher would delve into that at a PhD level. I didn't know about CENI before finding this exer board, years ago.

[longdistancerunner]

A hermeneutic is a method of interpreting the Bible. The standard hermeneutic of the coC is C.E.N.I., Command, Example, and Necessary Inference. I remember there was an uproar in this area back in the late 80s because several very educated, prominent coC preachers declared a need for a new hermeneutic. Sadly, at that point in time, I was so drunk on the kool aid I never even considered that they might be right and have no idea to this day what their proposed hermeneutic was. It caused a lot of pearl clutching and venomous rhetoric but got no traction in this conservative, backwards area.

How do you interpret the Bible when there is only one correct way to interpret it, does it become a matter of how you justify the apparent contradictions to what has already been determined to be the right interpretation?

[agricola]

Yes, if there is some given 'correct' METHOD for interpretation, than a conclusion reached through that method must be valid, even if two different people come to two different conclusions. The METHOD theoretically only 'permits' valid conclusions to be reached - so it doesn't matter how MANY different conclusions people come to, as long as they did the METHOD correctly, right?

Of course, every person with a different notion is going to argue that the other guy didn't do it right, but that's opinions.

Worth every penny, too.

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[B.H.]

I always thought CENI was valid, though i would add the concenpt of extended principle. For example Paul said not to muzzle the ox treading out the grain. the verse was about oxen but he extended the principle to the paying of preachers.