Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ancient Thumbnail History. Hermes and Homer ; Halakhah and Haggadah ; Alexandria and Antioch ; Cassian and Augustine -- The Reformation Era. Martin Luther ; John Calvin ; Thomas Müntzer -- Orthodoxy and Pietism. Matthias Flacius Illyricus ; Johann Albrecht Bengel -- The Enlightenment. Baruch Spinoza ; John Locke ; Christian Wolff ; Sigmund Jacob Baumgarten -- Contemporary in Dissent : Johann Georg Hamann. Postscript : Johann Christian Edelmann -- The Modern Period. Johann Salomo Semler ; Friedrich Schleiermacher ; The Strauss-Baur school ; Georg Heinrich August Ewald ; The Americans -- The Twentieth Century. Karl Barth ; Rudolf Bultmann ; The Chicago School, Harvard, Yale, Union in New York, Princeton -- Summing Up -- The Malaise. The Attacks ; Alternatives ; The Current Situation -- The Historical-Critical Method Down to Size. On limits ; On Objectivity ; On the Neutral Observer ; On the Community ; On the Text ; On the Author ; On the Right to Criticism -- A Last Word -- Index of Names -- Index of Scripture References.

For many, the historical-critical method has released a host of threats to Christian faith and confession. In Pandora's Box Opened, however, Roy Harrisville argues that despite the evils brought upon biblical interpretation by the historical-critical method, there is still hope for it as a discipline. Harrisville begins by describing the emergence and use of the historical-critical method. He then attends to the malaise that has come over the method, which he says still persists. Finally, Harrisville commends the historical-critical method, though shorn of its arrogance. He claims that the method and all its users comprise a "Pandora's Box" that, when opened, releases "a myriad other pains," but hope still remains.

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