Hermeneutical Spirals and Stuff: A Critical Essay by Tamice Namae

Grant Osborne, a PhD professor of New Testament Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Gordon Fee, PhD Professor Emeritus of New Testament Studies at Regent College and Douglas Stuart, PhD Professor of Old Testament at Gordon- Conwell Theological Seminary attempt to give the reader tools to navigate biblical study and hermeneutical challenges in their respective works: The Hermeneutical Spiral and How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth.

There are similarities in the grievances over contemporary hermeneutic approaches in each of the texts yet the motivations behind penmanship, the foundations of process and methods vary between the authors. The reader will find this brief explanation helpful in identifying these differences in this essay.

At the outset, one finds that Osborne’s work is written for scholars for the purpose of proper and professional homiletics. Its main theme is to criticize to undermining the hermeneutical circle theory of scripture interpretation. Osborne reje…