Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 92 No. 1, 2022.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.92.1.4
From Rioeur’s Biblical Hermeneutics to Hermeneutics of the Body
Krešimir Šimić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0114-372X
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
With his phenomenological hermeneutics, Paul Ricoeur had an important influence on Biblical exegesis. The article, therefore, first, analyses his study, Biblical Hermeneutics (1975), which exemplifies the main points of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and its application to Biblical texts. Although it is generally considered that this kind of hermeneutics is an important corrective to the so-called structuralist ideology for which the autonomy of a text presupposes a complete termination of the referential dimension of language, the article points out that phenomenological hermeneutics is not sufficient and that it ignores the incarnational logic. Consequently, it suggests that Biblical hermeneutics needs to not only return the written text to discourse but also to point towards the Body, which is not a mere interpretative community but an event of the »new creation«. By being in the Body, a new hermeneutics of the body is being »born«.
Keywords
Paul Ricoeur; text; discourse; hermeneutics; body.
Hrčak ID:
280873
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Publication date:
22.7.2022.
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