ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores that the expository and analytical, the general shape of a constructive proposal for the deployment of doctrine in the depiction of the hermeneutic field has been implicit. When the aim of Scripture reading is its interpretation for the life of the Christian church, the nature and function of Bible as it is implicated in God's revelatory and salvific action is primary. Robert Jenson makes the point that historical-criticism is especially pertinent to the scriptural reading of the Bible. Theological hermeneutics is undertaken in prayer for the grace of God as genuine human work in the service of the scriptural reading of the Bible. However, interpretation takes place in prayer and as penultimate human work with hope; because God has demonstrated that in sovereign freedom God is for us in the Gospel.
