"To move from a biblical text to its salvific meaning for the present time various hermeneutic procedures are employed". To what extent you consider scientific hermeneutics to be important.

Often you hear people say: "Just read the Bible and do what it says!" The problem with this attitude is that different people, even though they read the same Bible, come to very different conclusions about what it actually says or the teenager who says "the Bible is just written by people from a long, long time ago and doesn't have any meaning for me at all now". In my Parish of Kiama in Australia, …

…interpreting the Bible. Then in 1964, the Biblical Commission issued Instructio de historica evangelorium veritate (Instruction on the Historical Truth of the Gospels) which was very explicit in its support of scientific hermeneutics in interpreting the Bible and finally we come to The Biblical Commissions document The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church issued in 1993 which emphasized again scientific hermeneutics but in particular the historical-critical method which is the major reference source for this paper.