6. TYPES OF CRITICISM TYPES OF CRITICISM -SOURCE CRITICISM -TRADITIONAL CRITICISM -HISTORICAL CRITICISM Detective work discovering the real truths that the text is trying to speak to the world about.

7. TYPES OF CRITICISM TYPES OF CRITICISM -SOURCE CRITICISM What is the source of the material? Who wrote it and what was the relationship between his material and other material in the New Testament?

27. ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE Who are the disciples in the GOSPEL RECORDS? Are they all the same? Who are the disciples in the GOSPEL RECORDS? Are they all the same? Who is Jesus in the GOSPEL RECORDS? Is He the same in all of them? Who is Jesus in the GOSPEL RECORDS? Is He the same in all of them?

29. TYPES OF CRITICISM TYPES OF CRITICISM -TRADITIONAL CRITICISM Traditional Criticism sought to construct trajectories that were judged to unpack the development of tradition.

30. THE GRACE TRADITION OR THE CHURCH TRADITION Where did the traditions of the Church come from? Some are Biblical, some are cultural. Where did the traditions of the Church come from? Some are Biblical, some are cultural. Biblical traditions. Biblical traditions.

31. GRACE TRADITION

53. TYPES OF CRITICISM TYPES OF CRITICISM -HISTORICAL CRITICISM HISTORICAL criticism seeks to capture the culture in which WORDS were used to communicate the WORD.