Contents : Pt 1 : Evangelical prolegomena to hermeneutics: The necessity for hermeneutics -- Presuppositions in reading and understanding -- Gospel-centred hermeneutics -- Towards a biblical theology of interpretation. Pt 2 : Challenges to evangelical hermeneutics: The eclipse of the gospel in the early church -- The eclipse of the gospel in the medieval church -- The eclipse of the gospel in Roman Catholicism -- The eclipse of the gospel in liberalism -- The eclipse of the gospel in philosophical hermeneutics -- The eclipse of the gospel in historical criticism -- The eclipse of the gospel in literary criticism -- The eclipse of the gospel in evangelicalism. Pt 3 : Reconstructing evangelical interpretation: Pre- and post-enlightenment evangelical interpretation -- The gospel and the literary dimension -- The gospel and the historical dimension -- The gospel and the theological dimension: the two testaments and typology -- The gospel and the historical dimension: biblical and systematic theology -- The gospel and contextualization -- The hermeneutics of Christ.