Volume 4, Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2001
Evan Fales
Pages 169-184
Reformed Epistemology and Biblical Hermeneutics
Literal-minded Christians are enjoying resurgent respectability in intellectual circles. Darwin isn’t the only target: also under attack is the application of modern historiography to Scripture According to Reformed epistemologists, ordinary Christians can directly know that, e.g., Jesus rose from the dead, and evidential concerns can be dismissed. This reversion to a sixteenth century hermeneutic deserves response.