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hermeneuticsPhilosophical tradition concerned with the nature of understanding and interpretation of human behaviour and social traditions. From its origins in problems of biblical interpretation, hermeneutics has expanded to cover many fields of enquiry, including aesthetics, literary theory, and science. The German philosophers Wilhelm Dilthey, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer were influential contributors to this tradition. |
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An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretations of the Bible All of this may be commendable (and perhaps hard for some of the book's conservative supporters to swallow), but at the same time, there is little acknowledgement that the Bible has also served as a major resource for pro-slavery and pro-segregationist forces or that women have been--and still are, in many cases--treated as subject to male authority because of fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible. This voice can also disturb, decenter, and dethrone sanitized interpretations of the Bible that canonize the abuse of power and portray victimization as a spiritual opportunity to identify with the suffering redeemer. |
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