Art Quote by Dale B. Martin

“I urge not that we assume that love will provide a reliable foundation for knowledge but that we nonetheless keep the requirements of love…

— Dale B. Martin

“There are good theological reasons to reject making authorial intention the goal of the interpretation of Scripture. First, we must recognize that what has…

— Dale B. Martin

“Raw humanity offends our sensibilities.”

— Barbara Lazear Ascher

“Those who devote themselves to the study of Sacred Scripture should always remember that the various hermeneutical approaches have their own philosophical underpinnings, which…

— John Paul II

“An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation…

— Johan Huizinga

“It is well known that Pentecost reverses Babel. The people who built the tower of Babel sought to make a name, and a unity,…

— Kevin J. Vanhoozer

“Historical exegesis is only the preliminary part of interpretation; application is its essence. Exegesis without application should not be called interpretation at all.”

— J.I. Packer

Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce,…

— George Steiner

To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the…

— George Steiner

“If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly what we've…

— Eli Of Kittim

“One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!”

— Eli Of Kittim

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

— Woody Allen