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The Real Jesus! (midwest.social)

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[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

You're correct that bad interpretations aren't strictly a modern problem. There are, however, problems with interpretation that are distinctly modern (as in the last 200'ish years of church history). Modern Christian eschatology, aka "end times theology", falls distinctly into those modern interpretation problems.

That isn't too say previous generations of church history had it on lock, they just had different factors screwing with the perspectives.

A lot of all these issues comes down to antisemitism, which has been a dominant factor for Christian theology for most of its post-Constantine history.

The goal with literary scholarship is always to understand the authorial worldview and intent, something many church writers explicitly rejected for millennia.