The Rogue’s Gallery

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-113
Author(s):  
Frederick C. Beiser
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Young Hegelians ◽  
Allegorical Interpretation

This chapter treats Strauß’s Streitschriften, his chief polemical writing against the first critics of Das Leben Jesu. These critics came from many quarters, from young Hegelians to orthodox pietists and Lutherans. The Streitschriften are very revealing about Strauß’s ambivalence on certain issues, viz., whether the dogma of Christ’s resurrection was necessary for Christianity; they also show that Strauß held out the possibility of an allegorical interpretation of the Bible. The Streitschriften are most interesting about the reasons for Strauß’s allegiance to criticism and the authority of reason. Here we see why Strauß believed that critique was essential for religious belief.

On the Aquedah in Modern Philosophy

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
Ze'ev Levy
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Fear And Trembling ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Do So

AbstractThe story of the Aquedah represents one of the most moving stories of the Bible. Most modern discussions on it take their point of departure from Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. I shall do so too in this essay, which focuses on the relations between ethics and religious belief and tries to show that Kierkegaard misinterpreted the story. The inquiry analyzes philosophical responses to the Aquedah from Philo and Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers until the present. It underscores its paradoxical implications, including a structuralist analysis and comparison of the Aquedah with the biblical story of Yephta's daughter. The final conclusion asserts that what Kierkegaard extolled, Judaism condemns as sacrilege.

scholarly journals Biblical hermeneutics as the structuralist of the poetics of "The Word of Law and Grace" of Ilarion

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Law ◽  
Allegorical Interpretation

The article states that, for the purpose of interpreting the Biblical topos of the Law and Grace, Hilarion refers to the genre of the word. Hilarion takes first place in the title, and then in the text of the work God brings out wisdom. By law, he believes the Old Testament, which has already fulfilled its task, and Grace - the New Testament, which outlines the existence of man, his relationship with God, gives hope for eternal life. The subject of the "Word" breaks the sermon into four fragments. In the first of them, we notice the allegorical meaning of reading the Scriptures in relation to the history of mankind. The second part is devoted to the interpretation of the image of Jesus Christ, which appears as a synthesis of God and human nature. The third fragment depicts events beyond the boundary of the Bible. It is devoted to the baptism of Rus. In the fourth fragment Prince Volodymyr is glorified. Following the best traditions of Byzantine oratory prose, the author of the Word simply pours his text into quotations from the Bible and adds to them a predominantly allegorical interpretation, emphasizing that the work is not intended for proclamation, but for reading, which enabled the author to interpret the Scriptures and in the literal, and in allegorical sense. The advantage of the New Testament over the Old Testament is embodied by the author in the images of the free wife of Abraham Sarah - Grace and his servant Hagar - Law. Laconic retelling of God-inspired text, Hilarion interprets the old-czarist images, as those that represent the new covenants at the level of allusions, presented them in the form of additional parallel antithesis. The same anti-colored color is also depicted by the images of their children. Isaac was born from a free woman, which means that he represents freedom, Ishmael is from a slave, hence his image symbolizes slavery. He who receives Grace receives goodness, love, becomes the son of God, and begins to live a new life in the Holy Spirit through which the believer is through. The overcoming of the Law and the perception of Grace means, according to Hilarion, the acquisition of spiritual freedom.

scholarly journals Religious Beliefs And Wealth Accumulation

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 407
Author(s):  
E. Anne York ◽  
Marilyn Dutton
Keyword(s):  
Quantile Regression ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Net Worth ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Precise Measure ◽  
The Relationship

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">One of the more interesting findings in the research on household wealth is the relationship between religion and wealth accumulation. In contrast to previous studies that use denominational affiliation, we use a more precise measure of religious belief constructed from responses to survey questions regarding interpretation of the Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regression results indicate that households with more literalist Biblical beliefs have lower net worth overall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additional analysis using quantile regression reveals that this relationship holds only for the upper half of the wealth distribution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no relationship at lower levels of wealth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, while more literalist households are less likely to have an investment account or to have ever received an inheritance, they are more likely to own a home and to have a positive net worth.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Davies
Keyword(s):  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Pilgrim's Progress ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Allegorical Interpretation

Focusing on Christian’s confrontation with Apollyon, this chapter provides an overview of John Bunyan’s first religious allegory and his most famous work of fiction: The Pilgrim’s Progress (originally published in 1678). It considers the enduring literary and imaginative power of The Pilgrim’s Progress by addressing Bunyan’s sophisticated control of popular fiction and the Bible, as well as of metaphor, allegory, and allegorical interpretation within its narrative form. It also places The Pilgrim’s Progress within some of its key theological and historical contexts, including the persecution of Nonconformists, such as Bunyan himself, who suffered throughout the Restoration for the sake of conscience and in the name of religious liberty for Protestant Dissenters.

‘A Double Face of False and True’

2019 ◽  
pp. 62-77
Author(s):  
Michael O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Language ◽  
Poetic Vision

Chapter 3 traces the movements of Shelley’s ideas and attitudes toward religion throughout his life and writings. It views Shelley as a far more nuanced religious thinker than is often implied by critics. It identifies the ambivalence with which Shelley, a self-styled atheist, approaches religious belief—especially Christian modes of belief—and the ways in which Shelley wrestles with and subverts the boundaries between the secular and the religious. The chapter examines how Shelley’s imagination adapts the language of religious belief in order to articulate poetic vision and experience. It traces many of Shelley’s allusions to the Bible and identifies the ways in which Shelley ‘incessantly reorchestrate[s]’ Biblical language in his works. It identifies the treatment of religion in other Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth and Blake, and shows how Shelley’s poetry departs from their approaches to religion. The chapter also probes a recurring idea in Shelley’s poetry and writings that there is some power or spirit that affects human souls, that originates within or, just possibly, beyond humanity, and has characteristics that influence and are influenced by poets. For Shelley, poetry is religion and poets are prophets and seekers of truth. The chapter also discusses Shelley’s religious prose and the ways in which his writings about God, belief, and religion ‘[reveal] a double rhythm’ in which Shelley ranges from scientific examination to ‘eruptions of latent feeling’. The chapter concludes with a study of Shelley’s final poem, the unfinished Triumph of Life, showing that throughout the poem there ghosts a ‘Christian belief-system that is never wholly abandoned or forgotten’.

The Paradox of Kurt Gödel: A Response

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Hollis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Mathematical Reasoning ◽  
Ontological Argument ◽  
Maternal Influence ◽  
Childhood Exposure ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Kurt Gödel

Miloš Dokulil’s dissection of Kurt Godel’s religious worldview generates questions among his conclusions. In part, the reader’s understanding is challenged by the turgid translation from the Czech language. Yet, the meaning still can be extricated. Because Gödel’s ontological argument for God’s existence was not published in his lifetime, there is doubt that he was satisfied by its method. Truly, since virtually all of Gödel’s writings on philosophy were unpublished, his rational Platonism leaves considerable room for speculation concerning his metaphysical system. Hence, Dokulil seeks alternative explanations for what seems to have been Gödel’s real faith in God. Framed by semantic-philosophical musings, Dokulil concludes that it was the influence of Gödel’s childhood exposure to the Bible mainly through his mother. Indeed, it seems at times that Dokulil is examining his own belief in God as well as Godel’s. In the event, there are several aspects of Göddel’s life and work which elucidate his religious belief through his pursuit of mathematical reasoning in a more intellectually engaging way than simply the maternal influence that is often most profound and Godly. These include his philosophy of Platonism, great contributions to metamathematics, and the relation of intellect and will.

scholarly journals Rule of Love and Rule of Faith in Augustine’s Hermeneutics: A Complex Dialectic of the Twofold Rules

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-218
Author(s):  
Steven Yong
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literal Interpretation ◽  
Rule Of Faith ◽  
Good Samaritan ◽  
De Doctrina Christiana ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Allegorical Interpretation

Since the sixteenth-century Reformation, literal interpretation of the Bible has been deemed the best hermeneutical method to unearth the biblical writers’ original meaning. For the Reformers, allegorical interpretation was denigrated for reading an extraneous, or spiritual, meaning into any text. Although Augustine was among the first who champions a literal interpretation of the Scripture—as he outlined in his De doctrina christiana—until recent decades, Augustine is still being perceived as inconsistent in following his hermeneutical method as it is attested in his interpretation of the Good Samaritan. In his interpretation, Augustine seems to have allegorized the parable, thus his method was accused of being inconsistent. Is it really the case? This article attempts to contest such an accusation by showing that Augustine’s method of interpretation cannot simply be categorized as either entirely literal or allegorical. Augustine never professes as a literalist, an exegete who only applies what is now known as a historical-critical method. On the other hand, he did not recklessly legitimate the application of allegorical reading to any text. Taken as a whole, Augustine’s hermeneutics revolves around a complex dialectic of regula dilectionis (the rule of love) and regula fidei (the rule of faith) that allows both interpretations to be considered to be true.

scholarly journals Ekspository Preaching: Jawaban Terhadap Kebutuhan Sistem Berkhotbah Masa Kini

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Aris Elisa Tembay
Keyword(s):  
Expository Preaching ◽  
The Other ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Allegorical Interpretation

Dalam ilmu Homeletika, dikenal ada tiga jenis khotbah; yakni khotbah Topikal, Tekstual, dan Ekspositori. Dibandingkan dengan dua jenis khotbah yang lain, ekspositori memiliki ciri-ciri dan kelebihan tersendiri, oleh karena pengkhotbah sangat terikat dengan teks yang dikhotbahkan dan teks tersebut harus merupakan teks yang lengkap seperti satu perikop.  Sesuai dengan namanya “Ekspositori” adalah memberitakan atau mengekspos kebenaran Firman Allah dalam satu rangkaian yang terdiri dari tema, pokok-pokok besar dan kecil yang kesemuannya bersumber dari teks. Sehingga menolong pengkhotbah untuk jauh dari penafsiran alegoris, karena seluruh khotbah terdiri dari suatu penjelasan terperinci tentang satu bagian tertentu dari Alkitab dan nats Alkitab itu terjalin dalam seluruh uraian. Khotbah ekspositori menolong jemaat atau pendengar untuk mudah mengerti maksud dan tujuan Firman Tuhan, karena yang diberitakan bukan ide pengkhotbah tetapi murni penguraian dari teks yang dibacakan. Di samping itu sistematika ekspositori yang menguraikan pokok-pokok besar dan kecil bersumber dari tema yang berasal dari teks, memudahkan pendengar untuk mengerti bahkan mengingat Firman Tuhan yang diberitakan. Oleh sebab itu khotbah ekspositori adalah jawaban bagi tantangan pemberitaan Firman Tuhan masa kini.   In Homiletics, there are three types of preaching known; namely Topical, Textual, and Expository sermons. Compared with the other two types of preaching, the expository has its own characteristics and advantages, because the preacher is very bound to the text being preached and the text must be a complete text like a passage. In accordance with its name "Expository" is to preach or expose the truth of God's Word in a series consisting of themes, big and small points whose findings are sourced from the text. So it helps the preacher to be far from allegorical interpretation, because the entire sermon consists of a detailed explanation of one particular part of the Bible and the scriptures are intertwined in the entire description. Expository preaching helps the congregation or listener to easily understand the purpose and purpose of God's Word, because what is preached is not the preacher's idea but purely a decomposition of the text read. In addition, expository systematics that outlines the major and minor points of origin comes from themes originating from the text, making it easy for listeners to understand and even remember the Word of God preached. Therefore expository preaching is the answer to the challenges of preaching God's Word today.

scholarly journals Literal in contrast to alegorical interpretation: History versus myth

2018 ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Rodoljub Kubat
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
Literal Interpretation ◽  
Theodore Of Mopsuestia ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
Exact Moment ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Allegorical Interpretation

Allegoresis as an exegetical method originated within Hellenistic schools of philosophy, and it expressed the Hellenistic thought to a great extent. First interpreters of the Bible who started using allegorical interpretation were the Hellenized Jews - Aristobulos and Philo of Alexandria. Later Christian interpreters followed in their footsteps, especially the representatives of the Alexadrian School, of whom the most notable is Origen. Biblical interpreters were faced with the problem of relation between the literal and the allegorical interpretation from the very beginning. The source of that problem was the Christian understanding of history, namely, the belief that God has really revealed Himself in history. Denial of text?s historical meaning deprived the formative events of faith of any meaning. On the other side, the sole view of the history as series of events from the past which have no deeper meaning led exegesis to sterile literalism. Tensions between the literal interpretation and the allegoresis escalated particularly in the 4th century when Emperor Julian the Apostate tried to revive Hellenistic paganism. In order to revive old myths, he made use of allegoresis. In polemic writings against the Christians he also emphasized that the Bible has to be understood allegorically. Prominent Christian theologians then arose against allegorical interpretation, seeing in it as a serious threat for the correct understanding of the Scripture. In that exegetical battle, the most notable were: Basilius the Great, Diodoros of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia. In this paper we will take a look at that exact moment in history.

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