Having been an Atheist, I can easily see the pick and choose method the esteemed columnist uses is a far cry
from biblical hermeneutics.
Not exact matches
As in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies
from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method,
biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integrator.
In these arguments the move
from data consisting of
Biblical texts construed in a certain way to conclusions concerning what truly is a tenet in some
Biblical theology is warranted by process
hermeneutics, strictly understood, i.e., a process theory of understanding.
Of course, process theology can not fulfil this responsibility without interpreting Scripture, and the separation of process theology in recent decades
from the close involvement in
Biblical scholarship of the earlier Chicago school has led to critical weaknesses which are only now being addressed.1 Nevertheless, for process theology the appropriate relationship to the Bible can not be exhausted by
hermeneutic.
In the wake of Latin American liberation
hermeneutics, religious communities and academics in the various countries of Africa and Asia have developed analogous forms of
biblical interpretation that work
from the particular experiences of those nations.
The authors often cite scripture, but, as in this case, do not make their
hermeneutic explicit, seeming to apply a very literalistic method without much benefit
from biblical scholarship.
Cox pointed to the significant work of
hermeneutics which needed to take place in order to translate the gospel message
from the
biblical rural environment to an urban one.
From the doctrine of God, we must turn in our discussion of authority to the matter of
Biblical hermeneutics and questions of theological formation.
While
Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (
from psychotherapy to radical protest,
from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.
(ENTIRE BOOK) Paul Ricoeur presents a
hermeneutics of
biblical interpretation
from his position as a philosopher, aided by Lewis Mudge's clarification of Ricoeur's thought.
She speaks of a feminist critical
hermeneutics deriving its truth «not only
from biblical writings but also
from contemporary struggle of women against racism, sexism and poverty as oppressive systems of patriarchy».21
My interests (and blogging habits) trend toward the practical aspects of a much more embodied anthropology than is generally acceptable, a
hermeneutic that takes its cue
from the
biblical authors themselves, and the continuing reformation of evangelical ecclesiology.
Fourth, I do not say that the
biblical texts I referred to must bear the exact interpretation I suggested, but to deracinate Mary
from the storyline of God's covenant people in the Old Testament is to veer dangerously close to a Marcionite
hermeneutic.