Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trajectory Hermeneutics

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge. The actual merge is left as an exercise for the relevant wikiproject and the editors of the target article. GRBerry 14:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trajectory Hermeneutics

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This looks like original research to me. Cruftbane 08:31, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom, can't find anything useful on it. Could be of use merged into another article (though I doubt a suitable one exists) Pumpmeup 09:51, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as WP:OR. /Blaxthos 12:15, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep' and admonish people to look hard before they nominate. Some simple searching online shows that the subject is not original research, although the article may contain some. Although it appears to be relatively new, it also appears to be a valid and fairly widely mentioned and studied theological approach. I can find at least that an entire chapter of "“Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism? Wayne Grudem(2006)" is devoted to it, It's covered as a topic in advanced Hermeneutics classes in both the United States and Australia... Looks notable to me just the usual unreferenced poor stub of an article - Peripitus (Talk) 12:22, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - I'm neutral for now, but it's not OR, there are sources on this. Many of them seem to be blogs so the problem may be finding good sources. Seems to be related to Evangelic / Christian feminism.
--BelovedFreak 12:55, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:RS and WP:OR. STORMTRACKER 94 18:39, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete this is the closest I can find to an WP:RS, a book by the author (Grudem) of the review that is the only reference currently listed in the article. That reference exists to support elaboration upon the statement that "One proponent of trajectory hermeneutics is William J. Webb", but it seems that Webb uses the term "redemptive-movement hermeneutics" while Grudem calls it "trajectory hermeneutics". In any case, while I don't think this is WP:OR, I do think it fails WP:FRINGE and therefore WP:N. I'm willing to change my opinion if WP:RS is supplied to show otherwise. Pete.Hurd 20:51, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps you are correct. It certainly isn't original research, as some hunting beyond a simple google search shows but may be a non-notable fringe position. Grudem is certainly a proponent but so is "Webb, William J. Slaves, Women, & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2001." As noted in "The Journal for Bibilical Manhood and Womanhood, Vol 3 No.1 " the concept predates 1996 and originated with a Asbury Seminary Professor David Thompson. It does appear though to be a phrase used by few but blogged on by many more - Peripitus (Talk) 22:16, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge. Article would be a fabulous subsection of Biblical hermeneutics. Benjiboi 05:05, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge to Biblical hermeneutics as Benjiboi suggests. I think it would be a shame to lose the information as it does seem to be a genuine theory. There are tons of blog mentions of it - obviously they aren't reliable sources, but it's definitely being discussed out there. It doesn't seem to be notable enough for an article of its own though - maybe one day.--BelovedFreak 18:36, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge to Biblical hermeneutics. Found several hits for it including Amazon, books.google.com, University of Chicago, Boston University, Northwest Nazarene University, Stanford University, Cambridge University and an article from Harvard University stating, "Gregory of Nyssa’s fifteen homilies on the Song of Songs follow the same. hermeneutical trajectory that began with Hippolytus of Rome (b. 170–75)". Several more colleges, theologians and noted Christians hits as well. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 06:53, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.