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The irrational bias of the myth of progress can be seen in the tendency to criticize orthodox church fathers for reading Greek metaphysics into the text, while overlooking Baruch Spinoza's rationalism and Bruno Bauer's Hegelianism on their own biblical interpretation. Is this because "Greek" metaphysics is bad, but "German" metaphysics is good? According to the history of hermeneutics as told from an Enlightenment perspective, if it were not for the pagan Enlightenment, Christians would still be
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― Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis
― Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis
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In the wake of the Reformation, as the correct reading of scripture became a matter of increasingly high stakes, Hebrew, as well as Aramaic, Samaritan, Ethiopian, Armenian, and other languages that preserved versions of scripture and documents of the early church, became essential weapons of theological warfare.
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― Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity
― Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity