RELS 311 Advanced Hermeneutics

This course is an advanced study of hermeneutics providing an overview of various hermeneutical approaches and wrestling with selected key issues such as the role of the reader and the reader’s worldview in interpretation. Students develop skills not only in reading the biblical texts more thoughtfully but also in becoming more critical and perceptive readers of the secondary literature available which reflects on those texts.

Notes: 3 credits

Prerequisites: RELS 160 Intro to Christian Theology and RELS 211 Biblical Hermeneutics