Miraculous in Scripture

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Class: 
Biblical Hermeneutics
Lecture label: 
NT510-11

The Miraculous in Scripture

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The Goal of Interpretation

Part 6

IV. The Miraculous in Scripture

A. Three Approaches

1. The Supernatural Approach (Traditional)

a. The events really took place.

b. The events happened as recorded.

c. The text proclaims a divine event.

d. Since God performed this event, search for a natural cause is irrelevant.

e. A closed cause-effect continuum is denied. Openness in history is maintained.

f. The intention of the text (author's meaning) is maintained.

2. The Rationalist Approach

a. The events could not have taken place.

b. The events happened differently than recorded.

c. The text contains a natural event behind it.

d. The natural cause of this event can and should be learned.

e. A closed cause-effect continuum affirmed. Openness in history is denied.

f. The intention of the text (authorial meaning) is not maintained.

3. The Mythical Approach

a. The events could not have taken place.

b. The text proclaims a divine event.

c. The search for natural cause is irrelevant.

d. There is neither a divine nor natural cause, since the text proclaims a myth.

e. A closed cause-effect continuum affirmed. Openness in history denied.

f. The "deeper" intention of the text (authorial meaning) is maintained.

B. Presuppositions

1. Eugene B. Borowitz

2. Rudolph Bultmann

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