Hermeneutics: Difference between revisions

Eisegesis means "reading in" and refers to the practice of inserting personal ideas into interpretation of a text preconceived through the filter of a [[worldview]]. Eisegesis leads inexorably to erroneous interpretations, in that it does not allow the Bible to speak to you on its own terms.<ref>[http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Jesus-Was-An-Aids-Victim-South-African-Pastor-Causes-Outrage-With-Controversial-HIV-Sermon/Article/201009115712929?lpos=World_News_Second_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15712929_Jesus_Was_An_Aids_Victim%3A_South_African_Pastor_Causes_Outrage_With_Controversial_HIV_Sermon African Pastor: 'Jesus Was An Aids Victim'] Emma Hurd, Africa correspondent. September 03, 2010</ref> Eisegesis generally found widespread success as an intellectual critique of Christianity within [[liberal Christian theology]]. Embraced during the time of [[Enlightenment]], the ancient Platonist philosophy influenced academic skepticism, at one point questioning any true knowledge,<ref>[[Wikipedia:Platonism|Platonism]] By Wikipedia</ref> and may be seen as a root toward the later opposition of the historical-critical/grammatical method of [[exegesis]].