ABSTRACT
A traditional academic approach to biblical hermeneutics emphasizes the importance of interpreting Scripture in the light of its original historical context but fails to give adequate attention to how the interpreter's present-day historical context affects the interpretation. This chapter explains how Andrew's interaction with contextual Latin American theology deeply affected his view of biblical hermeneutics and opened the way for his understanding of global partnership and integral mission. For Andrew the only way to overcome the obstacles to partnership is by fully recognizing that authentic partnership is 'a matter of sharing together the full responsibility for mission in all situations'. Other obstacles to partnership discussed in this chapter are the impossibility to respond to all the demands for help, misunderstandings caused by former patterns of relationship, different views of missionary priorities, and borrowing of mission insights from Third World scholars on the part of Western theologians without giving credit to the source of those insights.
