Critical Historical Thinking

[dakyon]

"First, the widely referred-to distinction between a hermeneutics of recollection and a hermeneutics of suspicion is irrelevant to the practice of critical historical inquiry and cannot be used to justify what is called a "hermeneutics of belief." Second, although the historical critical method does practice methodological skepticism, this

Comments

[meus_ovatio]

My only beef with higher criticism as such, is that they'll take an Assyrian stele and use it as "evidence", even thought it is every bit as much scripturalized, glorified, exaggerated and uncorroborated as any "Christian" remnant. That is ancient evidence, but not anything that happens to correspond with a highly preserved and more complete cultural artifact which simply had the luck of surviving and being a part of the eventually dominant culture.