Review article

Post-critical understanding of biblical faith

Jadranka Brnčić orcid.org/0000-0002-0568-5673 ; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb

Abstract

The details of Marxist, Nietzsche, and Freud’s thought have been largely revised, but by their fundamental convergences they have become an integral part of our culture imbued with hermeneutics of doubt. Traditional biblical exegesis, which Christianity feeds on wishing to preserve the hermeneutics of faith, most often separates its own cultural context from the general cultural and social context, thus leaving the faithful in a kind of schizophrenic situation. In this article the author is trying to show that doubt and faith do not necessarily exclude each other, but they can be in a dialectical, productive relation. (Self)-understanding of Christianity in the post-critical time is possible if one goes back to the biblical text, primarily to its symbolic, not theological potential, which enables the reader/listener to be called again and to become a new creature. According to Paul, the “new creature” is connected with Christ through whom God and the world are reconciled. Or, in other words: the “new creature” is the one who always and repeatedly understands himself before the biblical text allowing it to encourage him to intelligent faith and responsible action.

Keywords

doubt; meaning; biblical text; symbol; holy; biblical faith

Hrčak ID:

79679

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/79679

Publication date:

11.4.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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