Covers the emergence of hermeneutical questions in the patristic period.

This book explores the ways that Christians, from the period of late antiquity through the Protestant Reformation, interpreted the Bible according to its several levels of meaning. Using the five bodily senses as an organizing principle, Karlfried Froehlich probes key theological developments, traditions, and approaches across this broad period, culminating in a consideration of the implications of this historical development for the contemporary church.
Distinguishing between -principles- and -rules- of interpretation, Froehlich offers a clear and useful way of discerning the fundamental...