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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0927-2569
- eISSN
- 1568-5152
- DOI
- 10.1163/156851594X00132
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Abstract
RELIGION, LANGUAGE AND REALITY Towards a Relational Hermeneutics S.J. SAMARTHA The United Theological College, Bangalore Hermeneutics is a topic that demands serious attention in the dis- cussion of interreligious relationships, particularly in the Christian quest for a credible theology of religions. At the moment, we have a largely fruitless debate between those who believe in the "iner- rancy" of the Bible and those who make use of historical criticism in interpreting the texts. A community of discourse is hardly pos- sible because there is no meeting ground between them. The fact that neighbours of other faiths also have their own scriptures and their own hermeneutics, has hardly entered into the discussion. Is it possible to shift this debate from intra-Christian to inter-religious, from a mono-scriptural to a multi-scriptural context, in order to develop what may be described as a relational hermeneutics? I Hermeneutics is generally understood as the disciplined study and interpretation of texts in a given cultural, religious, linguistic and socio-political context. Although the focus of this essay is on reli- gious texts, hermeneutics, as a discipline, is concerned not just with "sacred" scriptures but also with secular texts, literary and scientif- ic. The plurality of religions
Journal
Biblical Interpretation – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994