Extra-Long (>70 mins)
New Testament
EvangelicalMethodist
The Rev. Dr. Richard B. Hays
Theologian
Richard B. Hays
Duration
72.23
Uploaded to YouTube
17 June 2013
Added to Database
20 August 2025
YouTube description
How do we read the Bible? How does the way we read the Bible inform our theology and ministry? Modern and postmodern methods of Biblical interpretation (hermeneutics) have tended to read the Bible as an isolated text with little unified meaning or coherencebut this has not always been the case. Throughout most of church history, Christians have read the Bible under the guidance of the Rule of Faith and the great Creeds of the Church. How does such a creedal hermeneutic square with contemporary Christian and secular approaches to the Bible, and what are the implications of this approach for Christian theology, spirituality, and mission?
