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The Canonical Sense of Scripture: Trinitarian or Christocentric?
Author(s) -
Padgett Alan G.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/j.0012-2033.2006.00292.x
Subject(s) - hermeneutics , meaning (existential) , philosophy , sense (electronics) , grammar , common sense , theology , key (lock) , epistemology , linguistics , literature , art , computer science , computer security , electrical engineering , engineering
In this essay I develop a threefold sense for Scripture today: conventional, canonical, and contemporary. This is my “grammar” for evangelical theological hermeneutics. I explore in particular the canonical sense: the level of meaning of the biblical passage read in the light of the whole of Scripture, with Christ as the center and key. In dialogue with the Orthodox, I argue that such a christocentric approach must also be, finally, a Trinitarian one.