Mail Call: Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics by Graeme Goldsworthy

There are days when it seems like Adrianna Wright, Online Publicity Manager for InterVarsity Press can read my mind.  It all began this past Sunday when I was on a run listening to a recent episode of the White Horse Inn podcast.  In this episode, Michael Horton and the crew interview Graeme Goldsworthy.  At the end of the interview I was thinking to myself that I really need to check out Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics.  Then mysteriously it  just appears on my doorstep two days later.  I’m going to make the assumption that this was just the divine hand of providence at work and not that Adrianna can actually read my mind.  Just to be sure…..  Adrianna, can you tell me what I am thinking right now? 

In all seriousness, Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics:  Foundations and Principles of Evangelical Biblical Interpretation looks like an excellent book.  This title was originally released as a hardcover in March 2007.  The new paperback edition was released this year and is available now.  You can get an idea of the material covered in the book from the table of contents, which I’ve included below:

Part I – Evangelical Prolegomena to Hermeneutics

• 1. The necessity for hermeneutics
• 2. Presuppositions in reading and understanding
• 3. Gospel-centred hermeneutics
• 4. Towards a biblical theology of interpretation

Part II – Challenges to Evangelical Hermeneutics

• 5. The eclipse of the gospel in the early church
• 6. The eclipse of the gospel in the mediaeval church
• 7. The eclipse of the gospel in Roman Catholicism
• 8. The eclipse of the gospel in Liberalism
• 9. The eclipse of the gospel in philosophical hermeneutics
• 10. The eclipse of the gospel in historical criticism
• 11. The eclipse of the gospel in literary criticism
• 12. The eclipse of the gospel in Evangelicalism

Part III – Reconstructing Evangelical Hermeneutics

• 13. Pre- and post-Enlightenment evangelical interpretation
• 14. The gospel and the literary dimension
• 15. The gospel and the historical dimension
• 16. The gospel and the theological dimension, I: the two Testaments and Typology
• 17. The gospel and the theological dimension, II: biblical and systematic theology
• 18. The gospel and contextualization
• 19. The hermeneutics of Christ

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