The Superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis

Steinmetz, David C.

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“…It also has the benefit of being rooted in a reading strategy that has been widely utilized in the Christian tradition, namely, allegory, or the “spiritual sense,” although Zahm's use of this strategy differed. Currently, there is a move toward reappropriating premodern modes of exegesis for contemporary theology among certain historical and biblical scholars and theologians (cf., e.g., Steinmetz ; O'Keefe and Reno ; Treier ). This hermeneutic has developed in response to a growing awareness of the inescapable role presuppositions play in interpretation.…”

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The Scientific Allegory of John Augustine Zahm: Zahm's Theological Method With Insight From Marie‐joseph Lagrange

Moscicke¹

2016

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Catholic modernist John Augustine Zahm is best known for his attempt to reconcile the theory of evolution with the Christian scriptures. However, Zahm's theological method—the underlying principles and procedures in his effort to reconcile faith and science—remains largely unexamined. In this article, I analyze Zahm's theological method and submit that it is an attempt to harmonize scientific knowledge and Christian scripture through a “scientific allegory” of the bible, which takes into account the human and divine meanings of scripture, the exegesis of the church fathers, and the dogmatic constitutions of the Catholic church. I compare Zahm's method with that of pioneering Catholic bible critic Marie‐Joseph Lagrange, and his conception of biblical inspiration and the supra‐literal sense of scripture. Through this historical investigation, I hope to contribute to the question of the relationship between modern science and Christian hermeneutics.

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The Scientific Allegory of John Augustine Zahm: Zahm's Theological Method With Insight From Marie‐joseph Lagrange

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2016

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“…Yang penting bagi pendekatan-pendekatan di atas untuk penafsiran Alkitab adalah keyakinan yang kuat akan inspirasi Ilahi terhadap Kitab Suci, dan keyakinan bahwa karena Taurat memuat seluruh kebenaran Allah untuk tuntunan umat manusia, maka tujuan dari semua penafsiran adalah untuk menerjemahkan kata-kata Allah tersebut ke dalam kehidupan manusia (Dockery, 1992 Ringkasan Dockery sangat membantu dalam memberikan gambaran sehubungan dengan penafsiran Alkitab oleh gereja mula-mula, "semua bapa-bapa gereja mulamula menyetujui arti literal dari Kitab Suci, tetapi interpretasi kontekstual, gramatikal, dan historis ditekankan oleh Theodore and Chrysostom, dengan konvergensi yang berkembang ke arah itu oleh Jerome, Augustine, and Theodoret" (Dockery, 1992 (Dockery, 1992). Dalam pengertian ini, misalnya adalah kota Yerusalem yang secara umum dipahami secara literalsebagai kota Yahudi, secara alegoris sebagai gereja Kristus, secara tropologis sebagai jiwa pria dan wanita, dan secara anagogis sebagai kota surgawi (Dockery, 1992 (Steinmetz, 1980). Harus disebutkan bahwa, bahkan di antara bapa-bapa gereja -Theodore, Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, dan Theodoretpengertian literal dari Kitab Suci tidak menghalangi mereka untuk mempertimbangkan konteksnya.…”

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Hermeneutika Alkitab Dalam Sejarah: Prinsip Penafsiran Alkitab Dari Masa ke Masa

Verdianto

2020

Jurnal Mitra Sriwijaya

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The practice of hermeneutics has become an inseparable part of human history. Hermeneutics as human activity arises from the need to interpret thoughts or texts written by others. A historical search reveals that there have been some changes in the principles of biblical hermeneutics. This paper aims to find out what are the principles of hermeneutics that developed from the early church up to the postmodern era. This paper is a historical approach using documentary research method. The results of this study state that there are at least three principles of biblical interpretation from the early church to postmodern times. First, the literal hermeneutics of the Bible was agreed upon by all early church Fathers, although contextual, grammatical, and historical interpretation of the Bible was emphasized by two church Fathers, namely Theodore and Chrysostom. This literal hermeneutics was used until the reform era. Second, modern hermeneutics refers to reason rather than the literal principle. This is the emerge of hermeneutics of relativism which bases truth on the senses and reasons. This principle agrees the application of rationalism to the Bible which leads to historical-critical. Third, contemporary (postmodern) hermeneutics is more towards a process of understanding that is temporary. This means that understanding has no clear boundaries, and that interpreters cannot reach a fully certain understanding. Thus, contemporary biblical hermeneutics is full of subjectivism, relativism, pluralism and is temporary.

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“…But now that theorists and interpreters of various stripes have recognized the deep problems involved in nineteenth-century conceptions of meaning, the time may be ripe for a revival of allegory. As David Steinmetz (1980: 38) argues,The defenders of the single meaning theory usually concede that the medieval approach to the Bible met the religious needs of the Christian community, but it did so at the unacceptable price of doing violence to the biblical text … I should like to suggest an alternative hypothesis. The medieval theory of levels of meaning in the biblical text, with all its undoubted defects, ﬂourished because it is true, while the modern theory of a single meaning, with all its demonstrable virtues, is false.…”

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The Old Testament in the New, Intertextuality and Allegory

Huizenga

2015

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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This article examines the phenomenon of the investigation of the New Testament use of the Old Testament by discussing representative twentieth-century approaches to the question, the relevance of the literary-critical concept of 'intertextuality', the ground-breaking semiotic approach of Stefan Alkier, and the possibilities afforded for allegorical interpretation. The article contends that the investigation of the NT use of the OT opens up fruitful avenues for the postcritical retrieval of premodern practices of interpretation, ready for a new hearing in a postmodern age.

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The Superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis

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The Scientific Allegory of John Augustine Zahm: Zahm's Theological Method With Insight From Marie‐joseph Lagrange

The Scientific Allegory of John Augustine Zahm: Zahm's Theological Method With Insight From Marie‐joseph Lagrange

Hermeneutika Alkitab Dalam Sejarah: Prinsip Penafsiran Alkitab Dari Masa ke Masa

The Old Testament in the New, Intertextuality and Allegory

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