Hermeneutics Terms - Week 1-2

Linguistics

the study of languages and it's structures with sub disciplines including morphology, phonology, semantics, grammar, and syntax

Philology

a pre-cursor to the science of linguistics that uses painstaking textual analysis of (primarily) old, written texts

Perspective

a person's point of view towards life and experience that shows up in how they understand reality especially in all three phases of mimesis

Inference

a conclusion drawn by a reader based on evidence and reasoning

Transjective

Both subjective and objective

Inspiration

God's superintending activity to ensure that the writing of the biblical text reflects His voice and His character. It makes the text both human and divine

Illumination

the work of the Holy Spirit to help readers understand, interpret, and heed the biblical text's message

Inerrant

the biblical text has no errors

Infalliable

the biblical text will not lead you astray

Sufficient

the biblical text and it's message is capable of communicating how to worship God in any and every situation

Authoritative

the biblical text and it's message is to be heeded

Authorial intended meaning

the lesson that the author wants the reader to learn

Reader response

an interpretive approach that grants the reader to define the meaning of the text being read

Mimesis

the process whereby an author can mimic or represent his experienced reality, even his perception and interpretation of what was, in a particular medium, such as a book, to a reader

Mimesis1

a person experiences an event and (unconsciously) records it into his memory (from the event to memory)

Mimesis2

a person takes an even from his memory. and consciously and deliberately records it into his book

Mimesis3

another person consciously and deliberately reads the text and (unconsciously) records the event into his own memory (from the text to memory)

Textual Spine

the significant repetitions at the beginning and ending a book that create a conversation and comparison of the most important aspects of the book, especially drawing the reader to it's problem and solution

Textual Strings

significant repetitions within and across a book or its parts that create a conversation and comparison of different sections of the book

Textual Outline

an organized presentation of a book's message that divides the text into major and minor units, following the design of the text's surface structure, and helps a reader discover its message

Textual Argument

a synthesis of how the parts of a text work together to create meaning by how the juxtaposed big parts relate to each other to advances the book's message from it's problem and solution

Main Message

the primary lesson that the author intends for the reader that resolves the big question or primary problem the book addresses

Big question

the big question of a book is the problem or dilemma that the book is addressing

Effective

the history of interpretations that influenced later readers

General Revelation

revelation that is available to all people in all generations that proves unable to teach draw men to salvation

Special Revelation

direct revelation of God that is need to find life with God by grace through faith primarily through enchanting God's word or in encountering God's saving events

Exegesis

interpreting by drawing out the meaning from a biblical text

Eisegesis

interpreting by inserting an outside meaning into a biblical text

Historiography

the writing of human historical events into a meaningful text that interprets the events it describes

Deduction

understanding a book or part of a book by focusing on its big picture or general categories

Induction

understanding a book or part of a book by focusing on its details and particulars