This book delineates the individualist “interpretation problem”
that has long beset Protestant biblical interpretation and engages
theological resources that could serve to move beyond it. Lauren
Smelser White argues that readers of Scripture—specifically those
who long to submit their lives to God's transforming Word, which they
believe the Bible discloses—ought to reckon with the participatory
role that human bodies (corporeal and corporate) play in producing
revelation's norms. Such a reckoning need not entail giving up on
Scripture delivering the life-changing address of a divine Other. In
support of that claim, White distills a picture of revelation as a
divine-human discursive encounter: a process wherein our hermeneutic
constructions are incorporated into the Word's self-disclosure, and
whereby interpreters who embrace this venture in vulnerability may
experience graced transformation. She concludes by proposing that this
“Christomorphic” interpretation process is analogous to a
mother’s embodied responsiveness in caring for her child. Such a
hermeneutic paradigm suggests distinctive commitments from communities
who desire to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in interpretive acts.
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The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781978711051
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Vendor
Fortress Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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