Philo

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.