Interactive Assessment: The Hermeneutics Quiz

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INTERACTIVE ASSESSMENT
The Hermeneutics Quiz
Scot McKnight
How do you interpret and apply Scripture?

Topics:	Bible study, Doctrine, Relevance, Spiritual growth
Filters:	Bible study, Church board, Pastor, Preaching, Small group leader
Purpose:	Discipleship
References:	None
Date Added:	February 20, 2008

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Posted: March 14, 2008
Liz (Guest)

By orienting the scale on a fundamentalist - liberal modernist scale, the middle position was a compromise between these extremes, rather than a traditional or postmodern alternative. I saw the quiz as conceptually collapsing all the legs of the Anglican 3-legged stool or the Wesleyan 4-legged stool into a straight line. I found the quiz about as helpful as the metaphor of a stool with all its legs arranged in a straight line.

Posted: February 27, 2008
Toni B. (Guest)


Thank you for this assessement it does get one to thinking. I would like to have the "labels" defined. What does it mean to be "conservative, moderate, liberal"in regard to hermeneutics?

Posted: February 28, 2008
David (Guest)

It's a fun little exercise, like a hermenutical warm-up to the day's biblical exploration, but could never be considered a normative or determinative assessment of perspective. From the structure of the questions, which fail to embrace the broad range of hermeneutic embraced by clergy, and the limited scope of social situations to the semantics of the questions, which do not speak the cultural language of the greater Church's denominations, and an overly simplistic scoring system, this inventory is a just a game. Enjoy it, but don't take it too seriously. Do I win the prize for mimicking Pauline sentence structure?

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