Concordia Theological Monthly
Publication Date
9-1-1965
Document Type
Article
Keywords
historical interpretation, biblical, hermeneutical, dualism, exegesis, hermeneutics, st. paul
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod ought to have a special interest in hermeneutical questions. It is surely a great gift of God to our church that the authority of Scripture is for us still an unquestioned authority, that in all theological discussion in our midst it can be assumed that all participants are the '"humble readers" of whom Luther speaks, that each man '"trembles at the speech of God and continually cries, Teach me! Teach me!'" Of all church bodies we perhaps are, by the grace of God, the least corroded by the '"acids of modernity," the most "naive" in our holy fear of Scripture. We need not apologize for this naivete; Jesus' promise to the child holds for the interpreter of Scripture also; be who receives the word of the kingdom "as a child" shall inherit the kingdom.
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Franzmann, Martin H.
(1965)
"The Hermeneutical Dilemma: Dualism in the Interpretation of Holy Scripture,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 36, Article 44.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol36/iss1/44
