My seminary classes at Liberty University have started back up for the fall.\u00a0 I am taking Systematic Theology and this is the most recent discussion board question and my response.<\/p>\n
What is the most recent form of biblical criticism and how has it effected biblical study today?<\/strong><\/p>\n Biblical criticism is defined as the study and investigation of biblical writings that seeks to make discerning and discriminating judgments about these writings. According to Erickson in Christian Theology, \u201csince the late 1960\u2019s, biblical criticism moved increasingly in the direction of the supremacy of the reader over the text\u201d (pg 108). This fits right along with the postmodernist generation that we live in today that denies the existence of absolute truth.\u00a0 People refuse to admit that something is true if it isn\u2019t comfortable or easy for them to grasp.\u00a0 This type of biblical criticism is called reader-response criticism.<\/p>\n We live in a society where the next Christian celebrity is always just a \u201cPrayer of Jabez\u201d or \u201cPurpose-Driven Life\u201d away.\u00a0 Those books and ones like them are great if they draw people to dig into God\u2019s Word to see His truths for themselves.\u00a0 Those literary phenomenons are dangerous if they cause people to base their belief in God solely on the opinions of the authors rather than the One that authored the greatest story ever told.<\/p>\n It is a dangerous line we walk when we start to listen to Christians more than we are willing to listen to the still small voice of God.\u00a0\u00a0 Psalm 46:10 challenges us to \u201cBe still and know that I am God.\u201d\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t call us to \u201cBe still and ask someone else how they are experiencing God.\u201d\u00a0 If we are utilizing the fare of the local Christian store to supplement daily Bible reading and prayer, that can be helpful.\u00a0 However, if you are using these things in place of reading God\u2019s word and begging for His insight, you run the risk of missing out on God\u2019s greatest revelations for your life.<\/p>\n Placing the thoughts of the reader over the truth of the text make reader-response criticism the source of confusion for many new believers and lost people.\u00a0 This is where denominational lines also come into play because some denominations are known for taking phrases out of context merely to satisfy their own doctrinal errors.<\/p>\n As believers, God\u2019s word must be our foundation that everything is built on and the filter through which all of life is lived.\u00a0 When we start using God\u2019s word as a canvas for our own thoughts and ideas, we run the risk of missing out on the abundant life that God has promised in John 10:10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My seminary classes at Liberty University have started back up for the fall.\u00a0 I am taking Systematic Theology and this is the most recent discussion board question and my response. What is the most recent form of biblical criticism and how has it effected biblical study today? Biblical criticism is defined as the study and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}