Traditions

Confessional and scholarly traditions that produce biblical interpretation. N88 is editorially neutral across them, and represents views from each in their strongest form.

N88 entries are tagged by hermeneutic approach — the interpretive method a view employs — rather than by the confessional tradition of its proponents. The same method (e.g. grammatical-historical exegesis) is used across Reformed, Catholic, evangelical, and Jewish scholarship; tagging by method keeps readers engaged with the argument instead of dismissing on tribal grounds. This page is here as a glossary, not a primary index.

• Reformed

  Calvin, Westminster Confession, contemporary Reformed scholarship.

• Wesleyan / Arminian

  John Wesley, holiness movements, Methodist and Nazarene scholarship.

• Open & Relational

  Process and open theism — God genuinely responsive to creaturely choice.

• Catholic

  Roman Catholic Magisterium, Catechism, papal encyclicals, Catholic biblical scholarship.

• Eastern Orthodox

  Greek and Slavic Orthodox tradition, the Cappadocian Fathers and successors.

• Pentecostal / Charismatic

  Assemblies of God, charismatic renewal, Spirit-empowered hermeneutics.

• Dispensational

  Scofield, Dallas Theological Seminary, classical and progressive dispensationalism.

• Jewish

  Rabbinic tradition: Rashi, Ramban, Ibn Ezra, Sforno, Targum, Midrash, modern Jewish biblical studies.

• Evangelical (broad)

  Cross-denominational evangelical scholarship — InterVarsity, Wheaton, Trinity, Asbury.

• Patristic

  Pre-Nicene and post-Nicene Church Fathers — broadly shared early-church readings.

• Critical / Academic

  Mainstream historical-critical biblical studies (SBL, JBL, Tyndale Bulletin).