Barton, "Strategies for Reading Scripture" (HCSB [HarperCollins Study Bible], xxxix–xliii)
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "The Bible as authority for faith"
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, Belief and Practice
Read the PDF titled "The Bible"
Heard, "The Critical Study of the New Testament"
Levenson, "The Bible: Unexamined Commitments of Criticism"
Meeks, "Introduction to the HarperCollins Study Bible" (HCSB, xiii-xix)
Sheppard, "Rediscovering the Natural Sense"
A Comparative Study of Varying Contemporary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation: A Report of the Commission on Theology and Church Relations, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, March 1973
If your computer doesn't have the software required to read this document, you may download it here: Adobe Reader. This document has three columns that describe some ways the Bible can be interpreted. The first column describes an ultra-conservative (some would say fundamentalist) "traditional" approach that disapproves of applying historical criticism to the Bible; the second column describes a strictly secular historical-critical approach which treats the Bible like any other piece of ancient literature; the third column describes a mediating approach that is committed to studying the Bible in the same historical-critical manner as other ancient documents but seeks to combine it in various ways and to varying degrees with faith, keeping faith and reason in a creative tension.