This book proposes an original typology for grasping the differences between diverse types of biblical interpretation, fashioned in a triangle around a major theological and philosophical lacuna: the relation between divine and human action. Despite their purported concern for reading God's word, most modern and postmodern approaches to biblical interpretation do not seriously consider the role of divine agency as having a real influence in and on the process of reading Scripture.

Mark Alan Bowald is Assistant Professor of Religion and Theology at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada.

Chapter 1 The Eclipsing and Usurping of Divine Agency in Enlightenment Epistemology and their Influence on Scriptural Hermeneutics; Chapter 2 A Triangle Typology: Mapping Divine and Human Agency in Contemporary Theological Hermeneutics; Chapter 3 Type One: Human Agency in the "Text"; Chapter 4 Type Two: Human Agency in the "Reading"; Chapter 5 Type Three: Prioritizing Divine Agency: God's Agency In, With, and Under Scripture and its Reading; Chapter 6 Implications of the Triangle Typology: A Modest Proposal for A Divine-Rhetorical Hermeneutics;