Handbook on Postconservative Theological Interpretation

Postconservative theology may be said to parallel with postliberal theology at its best. Orthodox biblical but open to new insights about how to interpret Scripture. But the new insights must be faithful as well as fresh. Postconservative theology is not the same as progressive theology which tends to lean toward indeterminant faith expressions whereas postconservative allows for particular faith commitments and expressions but understands that the constructive task of theology is never finished. Authors emphasize various interpretive theological lenses used for doing theology among various postconservative theologians rather than emphasizing the philosophical background to hermeneutical theory present in other works such as past influential thinkers (including Gadamer Grondin Ricoeur Heidegger etc.). This resource could also function as a companion to Evangelical Theological Method: Five Views (2018). This emphasis of the chapters will not be on the nuts and bolts of how to interpret but rather on the theological impulses that govern various lenses (Bible cultural context etc.) for doing theology and the way Scripture functions with respect to the practice of interpretation.