Hermeneutic(s) ( Reading Programs in Theology)

The ancient Greeks called him Hermes. In their view of things he had the job of communicating what the gods on Olympus might want men to know and what human beings, in turn, hoped to bring to the attention of their several divinities. His name therefore went into the making of the word hermeneutics, which was first used to designate the art of getting one\u27s message across to others and only later began to be applied to the formal study of the rules and principles governing the task of interpretation