Hermeneutics of faith

Hermeneutics of faith, the counterpart to hermeneutics of suspicion, is a manner in which a text may be read. It was the traditional or predominant way of reading the Bible for at least the first fifteen hundred years of Christian history.[1] Both interpretive approaches combined are necessary for a complete knowledge of an object.[2]:64

According to Ruthellen Josselson, "(Paul) Ricœur distinguishes between two forms of hermeneutics: a hermeneutics of faith, which aims to restore meaning to a text, and a hermeneutics of suspicion, which attempts to decode meanings that are disguised."[3]

Pope Benedict XVI's use of the term

During his October 14, 2008 address to the Synod of Bishops, Pope Benedict XVI cautioned,

[W]here the hermeneutics of fath...disappear, another type of hermeneutics will appear by necessity—a hermeneutics that is secularist, positivist, the key fundamental of which is the conviction that the divine does not appear in human history.[4]:43

References
  1. Jasper, D., A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics (Louisville/London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004), esp. pp. 9, 23 and 66.
  2. Lindvall, T., & Melton, M., "Toward a Postmodern Animated Discourse: Bakhtin, Intertextuality and the Cartoon Carnival" (1994), in M. Furniss, ed., Animation: Art and Industry (New Barnet: John Libbey Publishing, 2012), esp. p. 64.
  3. Josselson, R., "The Hermeneutics of Faith and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion", in Narrative Inquiry 14 (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, July 2004).
  4. Hahn, S. W., Covenant and Communion: The Biblical Theology of Pope Benedict XVI (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2009), p. 43.

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