"[1]: 27 It was the traditional or predominant way of reading the Bible for at least the first fifteen hundred years of Christian history.
[2] Both interpretive approaches combined are necessary for a complete knowledge of an object.
[3]: 64 Hans-Georg Gadamer, in his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode), offers perhaps the most systematic survey of hermeneutics in the 20th century, its title referring to his dialogue between claims of "truth" on the one hand and processes of "method" on the other—in brief, the hermeneutics of faith versus the hermeneutics of suspicion.
"[5]: 1–28 Rita Felski posits that Ricœur's hermeneutics of faith did not become fashionable because it appeared dismissive of the work of critique that defined an ascendant post-structuralism.
[7]: 43 In the history of Christianity, it is Paul the Apostle whose relationship to biblical texts is most closely associated with the hermeneutics of faith.