Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 89 No. 1, 2019.
Pregledni rad
Fudamentalist tendencies in the orthodox biblical scholarship. Some examples and hermeneutical observations
Predrag Dragutinović
orcid.org/0000-0001-7361-5581
; Univezitet u Beogradu, Pravoslavni bogoslovski fakultet, Beograd, Srbija
Sažetak
The article deals with the topic of fundamentalist approach to the biblical texts withinthe Orthodox biblical scholarship. After a brief description of the fundamentalist approach to the Bible and an attempt to question them from the point of view of the concept of Christian Scripture and contemporary epistemology based on the interpretative structure of knowledge, author briefly points to the strangeness of the fundamentalist approach to the Orthodox theological tradition. The fundamentalist readings of the Bible inspire or follow tendencies within the Orthodox Church, such as anti‑intellectualism, anti‑ecumenism, and a specific call to spiritual revival. One possible answer to the dominance of these phenomena in the Church is the promotion of the historical‑critical method in interpreting the Bible on the Orthodox educational institutions, as well as insisting on a scientific‑critical discourse in the context of the present time. The fundamentalist approach should be seen as a challenge, but also as an invitation to dialogue. Given the dialogic structure of interpretation, there is no reason to replace fundamentalist approach with another type of fundamentalism. The Church is a space that encompasses different expressions and phenomena of faith, but above all it is a space of dialogue and mutual understanding, not exclusion and rejection.
Ključne riječi
fundamentalism; Bible; Orthodox Church; historical‑criticalmethod.
Hrčak ID:
219451
URI
Datum izdavanja:
19.4.2019.
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