Quotes About Historical-critical

The end of biblical study consists rather in enhanced faith, hope and love both for the individual and the community. The historical-critical method is inadequate, in other words, because it does not address piety.

The approach taken to the Bible in almost all Protestant (and now Catholic) mainline seminaries is what is called the "historical-critical" method.

The fascination with historical-critical theology, to which many evangelicals have unfortunately more or less succumbed, lies in its claim to be scientific. It is considered necessary to respect scientific results. But what goes unnoticed is that these "results" are often nothing more than unproven hypotheses that are forcefully declared to be facts once they have found broad agreement.