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

Average Rating:

Posted: February 28, 2008
Jeff (Guest)

The quiz is an interesting idea, but it's a rather poorly designed instrument. For one thing, there are far too many false dichotomies for it to be useful. Why is understanding the historical context of a passage "progressive"? Why is recognizing the occasional nature of much of the Bible opposed to the idea of inerrancy? There's no inherent tension between the Bible being God's word for all time and our need to apply it contemporary settings. The relationship of the NT to the OT, how we apply God's timeless truth, and what we think it means that Christ has fulfilled the Law are serious and deep questions which go beyond simple labels like "conservative" and "progressive." I think this quiz only touches on these issues in a shallow, proof-texting kind of way. I think the quiz finally tells me more about McKnight's hermeneutics than mine.

Posted: February 26, 2008
Mike Daniel (Guest)

The assessment's answers are not mutually exclusive. I scored 49 - conservative - but disagreed with even my own answers! For instance, I can feel that adultery "deserves" capital punishment, without thinking capital punishment must or should be imposed... that's GRACE! Similarly, Homosexual prohibition IS accurate, but CAN be handled with grace. Questions like "Context for reading the Bible is..." cannot be answered without allowing for both relational and universal consideration. Neither answer is accurate. That said, I feel like I didn't fall somewhere between 1 and 5 on many of the questions, because the assume contradiction among answers where there is none with a truly strict semantic set. Still, thanks for the exercise - I would like to see more assessments, but with more carefully chosen verbiage.

Posted: June 12, 2008
Inigo Montoya (Guest)


Nice try, but... The choices were badly chosen in a couple of cases, especially on #11, where they don't even consider the possibility that the I Timothy strictures against women were indefensible in any context. The #13 choices on the context for reading the Bible and #15 on reader bias were oddly chosen as well.