Traditions

Eleven traditions, fairly represented.

Every interpretive view in N88 is tagged with the traditions that hold or have substantively defended it. The list below is meant to span the credible spectrum of biblical interpretation — not to endorse every position any tradition has produced, and not to suggest that views within a tradition speak with one voice.

  • Reformed

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    Calvin, Westminster Confession, contemporary Reformed scholarship.

  • Wesleyan / Arminian

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    John Wesley, holiness movements, Methodist and Nazarene scholarship.

  • Open & Relational

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

  • Catholic

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

  • Eastern Orthodox

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

  • Pentecostal / Charismatic

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

  • Dispensational

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    Scofield, Dallas Theological Seminary, classical and progressive dispensationalism.

  • Jewish

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

  • Evangelical (broad)

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

  • Patristic

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

  • Critical / Academic

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

Future work: dedicated tradition pages summarizing each tradition's exegetical instincts, canonical commentaries, and major contemporary scholars — and listing all N88 entries where that tradition is represented. Suggest improvements.