Review article

Historical Background o f Adventist Biblical Interpretation

Alberto R. Timm ; rektor Latinskoameričkog adventističkog teološkog sveučilišta

Abstract

This historical overview has highlighted some o f the major hermeneutical turning points within the Christian church that provide the larger background for the development o f the Seventh-day Adventist interpretation of Scripture. The allegorical method used by Hellenistic Jews and by post-apostolic Christians allowed many teachings of the Scriptures to be accommodated to the Greco-Roman culture. Numerous nonbiblical traditions were later officially treated as canonical by the medieval church. But the sixteenth-century Reformation restored basic hermeneutical principles that would allow a more complete recovery o f Bible doctrines. Such doctrinal restoration took place over time among Seventh-day Adventists through adoption of both the Protestant grammatical-historical method of Biblical interpretation and the Protestant historicist school of prophetic interpretation.

Keywords

adventist hermeneutics; sola Scriptura; tota Scriptura; allegorical method; historical-critical method.

Hrčak ID:

277746

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/277746

Publication date:

19.5.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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