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Testament in Mission: The Use of the New Methodological and Hermeneutical Reflections

Testament in Mission: The Use of the New Methodological and Hermeneutical Reflections <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>After several introductory reflections, this article attempts to categorize the various ways of using the New Testament as a foundation for the church's missionary activity. Here the author argues that interpreters of the New Testament should avoid a "double reductionism," while aiming at a multidimensional interpretive approach. The Bible is not a single book with a single understanding of mission. Rather, it offers a variety of perspectives on what mission might look like. In a third part the author offers several hermeneutical observations, suggesting that "linear" hermeneutics should be replaced by a hermeneutics of conversation. To counteract the absolutizing of our own situation and experience, it is necessary to stimulate a cross-cultural missiological hermeneutics.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mission Studies Brill

Testament in Mission: The Use of the New Methodological and Hermeneutical Reflections

Mission Studies , Volume 21 (2): 167 – Jan 1, 2004

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0168-9789
eISSN
1573-3831
DOI
10.1163/1573383042653695
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>After several introductory reflections, this article attempts to categorize the various ways of using the New Testament as a foundation for the church's missionary activity. Here the author argues that interpreters of the New Testament should avoid a "double reductionism," while aiming at a multidimensional interpretive approach. The Bible is not a single book with a single understanding of mission. Rather, it offers a variety of perspectives on what mission might look like. In a third part the author offers several hermeneutical observations, suggesting that "linear" hermeneutics should be replaced by a hermeneutics of conversation. To counteract the absolutizing of our own situation and experience, it is necessary to stimulate a cross-cultural missiological hermeneutics.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

Journal

Mission StudiesBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2004

Keywords: HERMENEUTICS; NEW TESTAMENT MISSION

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