Modern Hermeneutics (800-Mid-20th Century) pg 60

• Liberalism and the Historical Critical Method

• Rather than revelation determining what reason ought to think, REASON determined what parts of revelation to accept as true.
• Scripture had various degrees of inspiration.
• Schleiermacher totally denied the supernatural character of inspiration.
• A rigorous naturalism applied to the Bible because 'educated mentality' rejected all the miraculous.
• Elimination of all supernatural and the doctrines of human depravity, hell, the virgin birth, and even Christ's vicarious atonement.
• Source Criticism, Form Criticism, and Any-Old Criticism would do!

• Neoorthodoxy = Midway between Liberal and Orthodoxy

• Rudolf Bultmann believed that Scripture is humankind's witness to God's revelation, i.e. God does not reveal Himself in words.
• Infallibility and inerrancy has NO PLACE in Neoorthodoxy.
• Scripture is myth, and mans allegorical moral teachings.