Toward a Dialogic Hermeneutics

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Gatti
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Dialogic Approach ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Akan Culture ◽  
Specific Culture

Since the rise of African Biblical Hermeneutics, several different approaches have been developed in order to contextualize the Word within the African continent. However, excessive emphasis on context and culture runs the risk of generating a pseudo-biblical theology, not concretely founded on the Scriptures. Using Gen 4:1-16 as a study case, the article explores a dialogic approach to interpretation, respectful of both the biblical text and the receiving culture. Text and culture are placed “face to face” so that from their dialogue a call to action may arise addressed to the community of believers living in Ghana. After proposing an exegetical analysis of the text, the call to action in the text is brought into dialogue with a specific culture of Ghana (the Akan). With the help of traditional proverbs, the article analyses the assumptions with which the Akan culture encounters the text and the challenges that the text poses to the culture.

scholarly journals Ruminating on Justin S. Ukpong’s inculturation hermeneutics and its implications for the study of African Biblical Hermeneutics today

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Madipoane Masenya
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
The Past ◽  
Biblical Scholarship

In African biblical scholarship, the concept of inculturation hermeneutics has come to be almost, if not always, linked to the late Professor Justin S. Ukpong, the Nigerian New Testament scholar. In inculturation hermeneutics, argued Ukpong, the past of the biblical text is not supposed to be studied as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. Ukpong (2002) could thus argue: ‘Thus in inculturation hermeneutics, the past collapses into the present, and exegesis fuses with hermeneutics’ (p. 18). What does Ukpong’s concept of inculturation hermeneutics actually entail? Which implications does his notion of the fusion of exegesis and hermeneutics have for the theory and praxis of African Biblical Hermeneutics particularly on the African continent today? The preceding questions will be engaged with in this article.

ECOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE JONAH NARRATIVE – HAVE THEY SUCCEEDED IN OVERCOMING ANTHROPOCENTRISM?

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willie Van Heerden
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Relationship

A central concern of ecological biblical hermeneutics is to overcome the anthropocentric bias we are likely to find both in interpretations of the biblical texts and in the biblical text itself. One of the consequences of anthropocentrism has been described as a sense of distance, separation, and otherness in the relationship between humans and other members of the Earth community. This article is an attempt to determine whether extant ecological interpretations of the Jonah narrative have successfully addressed this sense of estrangement. The article focuses on the work of Ernst M. Conradie (2005), Raymond F. Person (2008), Yael Shemesh (2010), Brent A. Strawn (2012), and Phyllis Trible (1994, 1996).

Reading from Worlds under the Text: Oceanic Women in the missio Dei

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-51
Author(s):  
Rosemary Dewerse ◽  
Cathy Hine
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Missio Dei ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Women

Abstract Missional hermeneutics is a relatively recent development in the field of biblical hermeneutics, emerging from several decades of scholarly engagement with the concept and frame of missio Dei. In a key recent publication in the field, Reading the Bible Missionally, edited by Michael Goheen, the voices of the Global South and of women – and certainly of women from Oceania – do not feature. In this article the authors, both Oceanic women, interrupt the discourse to read biblical text from their twice-under perspective. The Beatitudes provide the frame and the lens for a spiralling discussion of the missio Dei as, to borrow from Letty M. Russell, “calculated inefficiency.” Stories of faithful Oceanic women interweave with those of God and of biblical women, offering their complexities to challenge assumptions and simplicities.

Persistence in Distance Education: A Study Case Using Bayesian Network to Understand Retention

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Kogut Eliasquevici ◽  
Marcos César da Rocha Seruffo ◽  
Sônia Nazaré Fernandes Resque
Keyword(s):  
Student Retention ◽  
Graphical Model ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Student Attrition ◽  
Composite Model ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Study Case

This article presents a study on the variables promoting student retention in distance undergraduate courses at Federal University of Pará, aiming to help school managers minimize student attrition and maximize retention until graduation. The theoretical background is based on Rovai's Composite Model and the methodological approach is conditional probability analysis using the Bayesian Networks graphical model. Network modeling has shown that among internal factors after admission to the course (as defined in the Composite Model) face-to-face tutorial sessions need to be better planned and executed, learning materials are still not adequate to online course specificities and the support structure needs to be remodeled.

Is the Future of Biblical Theology Story-Shaped?

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannine K. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Ethical Question ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
The Future

This article explores the concept of story for biblical theology, particularly from the perspective of evangelical scholarship. It is suggested that story offers a framework for biblical theology that avoids undue emphasis on propositional theology and maintains biblical tensions within a plot-focused approach. Additionally, a storied approach to biblical theology resonates with the narrative quality of the biblical text and of human experience and is best pursued via a dynamic hermeneutic. The essay concludes by addressing some weaknesses of the category of story for biblical theology, including its use to avoid historical difficulties, the scholarly tendency toward theological abstraction, and the ethical question of the claim to have sketched the biblical story. In response, dialogue across boundaries, including those of ethnicity, nationality, denomination, and religion, can be a valuable practice to evangelicals and others who see story as a promising category for the future of biblical theology.

scholarly journals QUESTÕES DE HERMENÊUTICA BÍBLICA À LUZ DA ESTÉTICA DA RECEPÇÃO

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (127) ◽  
pp. 419
Author(s):  
Antonio Geraldo Cantarela
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Text Reading ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Wolfgang Iser ◽  
Reception Aesthetics

O artigo propõe algumas questões de interesse de hermenêutica bíblica, discutidas sob o foco teórico da estética da recepção – teoria que destaca o leitor como polo dinamizador do processo da leitura do texto. Na construção de sentido, que se dá no ato da leitura, o leitor poderá sobrepor-se ao texto (o da Bíblia ou qualquer outro), submetendo-o ao próprio interesse ou necessidade, fazendo dele “tabula rasa” para projeção de sentimentos ou usando-o de forma fundamentalista e autoritária. Existiriam “controles” para evitar o uso arbitrário do texto bíblico? Para discutir esta e outras questões correlacionadas ao tema, o artigo apresenta, primeiro, em linhas essencialíssimas, a estética da recepção, a partir de seus dois principais representantes: Hans Robert Jauss e Wolfgang Iser. Volta-se, em seguida à questão central: Como evitar o historicismo e o fundamentalismo na leitura dos textos bíblicos? Como deixar que o texto apresente sua alteridade e diga, ele mesmo, alguma coisa?ABSTRACT: This article proposes some issues relating to biblical hermeneutics, discussed under the theoretical approach of reception aesthetics. This theory emphasizes the reader as a core facility of the text reading. In the construction of meaning that takes place in the act of reading, the reader may override the biblical text or any other text. Then the reader submits the text to his interest or need, making it a “tabula rasa” projection of feelings, or uses the text in a fundamentalist and authoritarian way. Is there any sort of controls to prevent arbitrary use of the biblical text? To discuss this and other related issues, this article presents firstly the aesthetics of reception, from the point of view of two experts: Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser. Then, the text returns to the central question: How to avoid historicism and fundamentalist reading of biblical texts? How to make the text itself presents its alterity and be able to mean something?

Face to Face with Multi-Resistant Pathogens: An Urgent Call to Action for Modern Surgeons To Pioneer in Antibiotic Stewardship

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 645-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias May ◽  
Robert Obermaier ◽  
Alexander Novotny ◽  
Florian M. Wagenlehner ◽  
Sabine D. Brookman-May
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Stewardship ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Face To Face

On Pentecostals and Pentecostal Theology

Pneuma ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 123-147
Author(s):  
Bob L. Johnson, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
The Church

Few contemporary scholars have influenced biblical theology more than Walter Brueggemann. As an authority on the Hebrew Bible, he has earned the respect of theologians worldwide. His work speaks to a variety of audiences in the church and academy. Of special interest here are the relationships he has developed with pentecostal scholars in recent years. His rhetorical approach to Scripture, coupled with the prominence this method affords the biblical text, speaks to Pentecostals. His appreciation for the wonder, mystery, and generativity of the biblical narrative likewise reflects a common emphasis. The priority he gives to the theological interpretation of the text contrasts with the historical-critical approach that once dominated the field. Within this theological context, the purpose of this interview was threefold: 1) to hear Brueggemann’s account of his own spiritual journey as a disciple and scholar—that is, his testimony; 2) to explore the origins and nature of his relationship with Pentecostals; and 3) to understand his perceptions of pentecostal theology.

Psalm 2 In The Context Of Biblical Theology

1990 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Watts
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Royal Ideology ◽  
Psalm 2 ◽  
Religious Nature

AbstractPsalm 2 is an intersection in which a variety of issues in biblical theology meet. The psalm impacts upon our understanding of monotheism in ancient Israel, the religious nature of Judah's royal ideology, the origins of eschatology, and New Testament Christology. Theological reflection on Ps 2 should therefore not only consider the recent exegetical discussions of the text, but also the theological issues raised by the Old Testament context, the New Testament's use of the psalm, and the history of the psalm's interpretation. In what follows, a survey of all these aspects will lay the basis for a theological construal of this biblical text.

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