Beyond the Impasse: The Promise of a Process HermeneuticContemporary biblical scholarship has reached an impasse. The various programs for bridging the gap between the ancient texts and their contemporary theological and ethical appropriation are often unsatisfactory at best and at worst even suspect in their results. We need an effective way to cross the bridge ... or a new bridge. Ronald Farmer suggests that a "process hermeneutic" holds promise of moving biblical interpretation beyond the current impasse. This is the first comprehensive introduction to a process hermeneutic. It is not, however, merely theoretical discussion, but moves from the side of biblical scholarship to develop a solid methodology for bridging the gap between text and life. Farmer applies his process hermeneutic to a difficult textRevelation 4-5 - and demonstrates this promising method in a piece of solid, responsible, and instructive interpretation. |
Contents
XL | 129 |
XLI | 131 |
XLIII | 133 |
XLIV | 139 |
XLV | 140 |
XLVI | 142 |
XLVII | 147 |
XLVIII | 156 |
XIII | 44 |
XIV | 49 |
XV | 56 |
XVI | 67 |
XVII | 69 |
XVIII | 81 |
XX | 82 |
XXI | 91 |
XXII | 101 |
XXIV | 107 |
XXVI | 112 |
XXVII | 116 |
XXVIII | 119 |
XXXI | 120 |
XXXII | 121 |
XXXIII | 123 |
XXXIV | 124 |
XXXV | 126 |
XXXVII | 127 |
XXXVIII | 128 |
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abstraction actual entity actual occasions analysis apocalypticism approach Beardslee becoming occasion Bible Biblical Theology Book of Revelation Bultmann Caird causal efficacy chapter Christ Christology Cobb composed conceptual feeling conceptual reversion conscious contemporary contrast creative transformation datum deconstructive discussion divine elements enduring objects eschatology eternal objects example existence existential expressed faith feeling in phase Heidegger historic route images ingredient initial aim intellectual feelings Jesus John's judgment Lamb literary criticism living occasions logical subject meaning metaphysical mode nexus notion novelty objectification one's past actual world perspective phase of concrescence phase of language philosophy physical purposes possible Postmodern predicate Pregeant prehension presentational immediacy primordial nature Process and Reality process hermeneutic Process Theology process thought propositional feeling R. H. Charles reader relations relevant Revelation salvation sense simple physical feeling society subject-superject subjective aim subjective form symbolic reference Testament thinking tion traditional understanding universe Whitehead Whitehead's Metaphysics words
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Page 11 - The real purpose of myth is not to present an objective picture of the world as it is, but to express man's understanding of himself in the world in which he lives. Myth should be interpreted not cosmologically, but anthropologically, or better still, existentially.
Page 11 - Mythology is the use of imagery to express the otherworldly in terms of this world and the divine in terms of human life, the other side in terms of this side.
Page 16 - To believe in the cross of Christ does not mean to concern ourselves with a mythical process wrought outside of us and our world, with an objective event turned by God to our advantage, but rather to make the cross of Christ our own, to undergo crucifixion with him.