Interpreting the Bible Author:A. Berkeley Michelsen The task of interpreting the Bible is to discover the authors' meaning and to transmit that meaning to modern readers. The task itself, however, is not simple for the meaning of the Bible is involved with a multiplicity of historical events, peoples, institutions, and languages. Dr Michelsen shows both the approach of rationalism, which would ... more »bring the Bible to account before the bar of human reason, and the approach of false pietism, which would subject the Bible to unstable feeling. Professor Michelsen points the way to biblically acceptable principles and procedures, and urges upon interpreters a greater awareness that interpretation must always take place in the love of God and in the Spirit of Christ, of whom the Scriptures are the supreme witness.« less