{"id":450,"date":"2008-03-14T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/03\/hermeneutics-quiz.html"},"modified":"2008-03-14T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T09:09:00","slug":"hermeneutics-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/03\/hermeneutics-quiz.html","title":{"rendered":"Hermeneutics Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Quick vocabulary lesson for you: <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Hermeneutics <\/span>is the word theologians and ministers use to describe the study of interpretation of religious texts &#8212; in most cases, the Bible. Scot McKnight, one of my favorite New Testament theologians and proprietor of the popular blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\">JesusCreed.org<\/a>, has put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingchurchleaders.com\/assessments\/individuals\/hermeneuticsquiz.html\">a handy interactive quiz<\/a> that helps give some framework to the way you read the Bible. Do you approach it from a more literal, conservative viewpoint? From a progressive, liberal viewpoint? Do you read it at all? (If not, you&#8217;ll be bored with the quiz.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/?p=3503#comments\">McKnight has said<\/a> the point of the survey isn&#8217;t to attach labels to people, but to start a conversation about what we do with the stuff written in the Bible. It&#8217;s pretty simplified &#8212; it sort of has to be &#8212; but has some interesting questions and things to think about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in the scores of those of you reading this blog. Where do you rank along the hermeneutical spectrum? Take the test (it&#8217;ll take about a minute) and post your score below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingchurchleaders.com\/assessments\/individuals\/hermeneuticsquiz.html\">Take the hermeneutical quiz here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelongbrake.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/hermeneutics-test\/\">Longbrake<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick vocabulary lesson for you: Hermeneutics is the word theologians and ministers use to describe the study of interpretation of religious texts &#8212; in most cases, the Bible. 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