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Hermeneutics Mid-20th Century and Beyond pg 62
Marked a tremendous paradigm shift wherein Biblical texts had literary sense that freed the from their authors to take on a life of their own.
Highly Complex theories and vocabulary that does not even overview well!
The “New Hermeneutic” = European development of Bultman's ideas without a method but with a 'broader understanding.'
Structuralism = meaning is not found in the authors intentions in writing, but in literary and linguistic structures, … dew-two dew-two,do-2 do-2.
- Actants of the text are sender, subject, helper, opponent, object and receiver. = esoteric, deterministic, and atheistic!
- Claude Levi-Strauss' paradigmatic analysis wherein Scripture is myth
Reader Response. = wherein the reader is the contributor or sole producer of the meaning of the text.
Deconstructionism is post-modern in rejection of all overreaching systems of meaning
Hermeneutics within Orthodox Christianity = Understanding the Author is common sense communication approach, use it.
- Communication between two people can only take place if both parties see to understand what the other person means by their words.! And one person, for Scripture, is JEHOVAH GOD!