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Drawing on his doctoral dissertation, Dr. Spidel will outline and recommend a prominent, though often misunderstood, patristic approach to biblical hermeneutics—one that does not focus on identifying and using correct methods of objective analysis but rather treats biblical hermeneutics as a quest for a transformed perception of the text. The early church leaders who first practiced this approach received and perceived the Bible, within the church, as the living textual presence of Jesus Christ—God’s ultimate Word. Theirs is a biblical hermeneutics centered on the transformation of reading persons which grants those persons the ability to genuinely recognize—on every page of the Bible—the face of that other Person, Jesus Christ, who inhabits the Scriptures and speaks to his people through them.Dr. Spidel is pastor of East Dayton Fellowship, a Brethren in Christ/Church of the Brethren congregation in Dayton, Ohio. He holds graduate degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and the University of Dayton. He was the 20250-2026 recipient of the Lesher Fellows Grant from the Sider Institute.
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Messiah University, 1 University Ave,Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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