Do you think a “theological” reading is the most appropriate way to interpret th

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Do you think a “theological” reading is the most appropriate way to interpret the Bible? How would you define a “theological” reading of the Bible? Taking a summer class and this is the first disscusion question and I've come up with my own answer which is yes I believe that the theological reading interpretation is something we must always take into consideration while reading because that is what the true meaning of the text is trying to portray to us as the readers. Just curios as to whay someone else might say.

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The study of texts is always undertaken within some larger framework, whether this is recognized or not. The larger framework, constituted by interpreter’s interests, determines what questions are considered important, what methods are found appropriate, and what explanations are deemed satisfying.Theological Interpretation represents such a framework. The aim of Theological Interpretation is to read the Bible as Scripture, that is, as somehow God’s transformative address to the Church here in the present. While recognizing the ‘historical’ character of the Bible, Theological Interpretation will not relegate it to the past, nor will it separate theology from interpretation. Grounded in the theological continuity between God’s people in all ages, the Bible is read as the ‘word of God’ to us. When read as a whole, Scripture it allows us not only to see the past, but gives us the lenses through which to understand the present and the future within the purposes of God. Its concerns are thus primarily theological, we read in order to understand God, and ourselves and the world in relation to God. There is no consensus on the issue of how to read the Bible as a Scripture and Theological Interpretation should not be straightforwardly associated with any particular approach.

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