Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views (Spectrum Multiview Books)

In this Spectrum Multiview volume five experts in biblical hermeneutics gather to state and defend their approach to the discipline. Contributors include:

• Craig Blomberg with the historical-critical/grammatical approach
• Richard Gaffin with the redemptive-historical approach
• Scott Spencer with the literary/postmodern approach
• Robert Wall with the canonical approach
• Merold Westphal with the philosophical/theological approach

Spectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.

Stanley E. Porter (PhD, University of Sheffield) is president, dean, professor of New Testament, and Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of twenty-eight books on various topics in New Testament and related subjects, including Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory (with Jason C. Robinson), and he has edited over eighty volumes, including Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views (with BethM. Stovell). Porter has also published over three hundred articles, chapters, and related writings.

Beth M. Stovell (PhD, McMaster Divinity College) is professor of Old Testament at Ambrose Seminary of Ambrose University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She also works as Theological Consultant on the national team of Vineyard Canada.