So for my senior sem. i have been reading a lot of a book by Thomas Howe called "objectivity in biblical interpretation" holy crap the dude is smart. The book is like 500 pages long but he does such a good job at arguing his point. The books bib is like 50 pages long because he did so much research.
The book is combating the Postmodern notion of nobody being able to objectively interpret. I really like Howe's argument. He says that there are "transcendental pressuposions" that allow humans to objectively critique a text. What he means by TP is a laws of logic that are supreme to all world views, such as the law of non-contradiction.
I think this is awesome because it grounds interpretation to something. However, i think that TP might not provide a firm enough base for complex interpretations. Meaning there might be different interpretations all which match up to TP equally. I dont know though...i have to finish the book to really decide what i think. But the guy is amazing.
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