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Hermeneutics
Kinds of Hermeneutics Selected AbstractsHERMENEUTICS OF MULTIPLE SENSES: WANG JIE'S "EXPLANATIONS AND COMMENTARY WITH DIAGRAMS TO THE QINGJING JING"JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2010JOACHIM GENTZ First page of article [source] RELIGIOUS HERMENEUTICS: TEXT AND TRUTH IN NEO-CONFUCIAN READINGS OF THE YIJINGJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 1 2007ON-CHO NG [source] HERMENEUTICS: PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERSTANDING AND BASIC ORIENTATIONSJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2006LAUREN F. PFISTER [source] ELUCIDATION OF IMAGES IN THE BOOK OF CHANGES: ANCIENT INSIGHTS INTO MODERN LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY AND HERMENEUTICSJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 4 2004MING DONG GUArticle first published online: 15 NOV 200 [source] A Review of Udo Schnelle and Francis Watson on PaulDIALOG, Issue 1 2007David L. Balch Abstract:, Since E. P. Sanders introduced the "new perspective" on Paul, Lutherans have had to ask again: did Luther understand Paul on the Mosaic law? The two books reviewed here carry forward the discussion Sanders began. Udo Schnelle's Apostle Paul makes two methodological choices with dramatic consequences for understanding Paul's theology and letters: 1) Paul was in direct dialogue with the Greco-Roman culture of the cities where he preached the gospel and founded churches, and 2) Paul's Christology, ethics, and eschatology developed and changed in relation to the religious and political crises through which he struggled. Francis Watson's Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith makes an obvious but novel decision to focus on the five books of Moses as read by Paul in dialogue with other contemporary Jewish interpreters, arguing that Paul's view of the "law" is his counter-reading of the five books of Torah. Paul's hermeneutic exploits tensions and anomalies in the text of Torah itself, enabling him to emphasize God's promise, not the human deeds of scriptural heroes. [source] Hermeneutics and the Doctrine of Scripture: Why They Need Each OtherINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2010FRANCIS WATSON Current attempts to understand Scripture theologically typically appeal either to modern hermeneutics or to more traditional doctrines of Scripture , but not to both together. It is argued here that hermeneutics can help to identify and resolve certain problems bequeathed to posterity by the characteristic sixteenth-century equation of Scripture with ,Word of God'. The problems in question relate to the past and present modes of divine speech, the relation of text to community and the fundamental significance of the ,Word of God' concept itself. [source] The Place of Theology in Theological HermeneuticsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2002Donald Wood This article attempts to analyse the recent theological interest in special hermeneutics by tracking the place it accords Christian doctrine when construing the context of scriptural interpretation. A typology is developed which both takes up and relativizes the distinction between general and special hermeneutics, arguing that while the church may welcome the renewed interest in its own peculiar reading practices, it need not lean too heavily on the philosophical and sociological commitments that underlie much of the interest in special hermeneutics. Theological hermeneutics will best serve the church when it attends from first to last to the divine grace that establishes and limits the church's interpretation of scripture. [source] Hermeneutics of Translation: A Critical Consideration of the Term Dao in Two Renderings of the AnalectsJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2004Marc Andre Matten [source] Cheng Yio's Neo-Confucian Ontological Hermeneutics of DaoJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 1 2000Yong Huang [source] Writing Across the Curriculum: A Hermeneutic Study of Students' Experiences in Writing in Food Science EducationJOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE EDUCATION, Issue 2 2005David J. Dzurec ABSTRACT: Writing can enhance learning by helping students put words to their thinking about course material. The purposes of this study were to assess the influence of a structured academic journal writing exercise on student learning in a food science class and to examine student responses to the experience. Hermeneutics, a philosophy of science and qualitative research method, was used to analyze journal data from 48 participating students during a 2-y period and involved 3 steps: (1) describing themes taken from a global reading of student commentaries, (2) reducing or relating themes to specific, verbatim statements found in student writings, and (3) interpreting or imposing meaning on the themes and the statements (Lanigan 1988). Hermeneutic analysis showed that journal writing was difficult at first but became easier and enjoyable over time, allowed students to relate course content to other knowledge, exposed students to course material multiple times allowing for better information retention, enhanced student understanding, helped students think critically, required students to prepare for class, gave students the opportunity to express opinions, and allowed students to experience writing as enjoyable and positive. Several minor themes suggested that most students found the experience useful to their learning. Findings from this study are consistent with neuroscience and cognitive psychology theories regarding learning and the development of reasoning skills. [source] Fatigue and Relatedness Experiences of Inordinately Tired WomenJOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, Issue 4 2000Laura Cox Dzurec Purpose: To examine the association of fatigue and interpersonal relatedness of fatigued women. Design: Hermeneutics. Methods: Seventeen fatigued American women, recruited through purposive sampling, were interviewed. Questions were based on data from previous research of women's fatigue and on characteristics of the theory of relatedness. Findings: Relatedness was significantly linked to fatigue. Participants moved toward disconnectedness, parallelism, comfortable noninvolvement, or through enmeshment and then toward parallelism. A spiral of intrapersonal and interpersonal changes, sense of emotional absence, lack of energy and motivation, and depression-like symptoms were reported by fatigued participants, particularly those whose state of relatedness shifted toward disconnectedness. Depression-like symptoms were associated with fatigue, but were differentiated from diagnosed depression. Participants noted that physical movement was helpful to them in mediating their fatigue. Conclusions: Findings from this study indicate the need for a database to describe the interplay among biological, psychosocial, and behavioral components of fatigue and to clarify its association with medical diagnoses, particularly depression. [source] Hermeneutics and the Heidegger = Schumpeter ThesesAMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2010Yuichi Shionoya This paper is a part of an attempt to develop an economic philosophy of ontology based on the Continental tradition of hermeneutics. Ontology explores the meanings of entities as the objects of knowledge to posit the orientation of knowledge. Heidegger developed hermeneutical ontology, focusing on the self-understanding of Dasein (human beings), which consists of the "projection" of its possibilities into the future and the "thrownness" of it into the restrictions by the past history. Dealing explicitly with the pre-structure of knowledge, hermeneutics opens the perspective of knowledge much broader than permitted by the analytical tradition of philosophy. It is the contention of this paper that Schumpeter from the Austrian subjectivist circle could cope with this approach in social science by the use of the concepts of "innovation and tradition" or "creation and routine." The paper discusses the relationship between Heidegger and Schumpeter on various philosophical issues and derives what might be called the Heidegger = Schumpeter theses. [source] Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics , By Jeannine K. BrownRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 2 2008Corné J. Bekker No abstract is available for this article. [source] Recovering Theological Hermeneutics: An Incarnational-Trinitarian Theory of Interpretation , By Jens ZimmermannRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2006John R. Franke No abstract is available for this article. [source] Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets (Studies in Theological Interpretation).THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 1 2009By Christopher R. Seitz No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Bible and Lay People: An Empirical Approach to Ordinary Hermeneutics.THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 1 2009By Andrew Village No abstract is available for this article. [source] Recovering Theological Hermeneutics: An Incarnational-Trinitarian Theory of Interpretation.THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 5 2007By Jens Zimmermann No abstract is available for this article. [source] Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith.THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 3 2007By Francis Watson No abstract is available for this article. [source] James Fodor's Christian Theory of Truth: Is it Christian?THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 4 2000Richard Davis The ,task confronting contemporary theology', says James Fodor, ,is that of the rehabilitation or recovery of a distinctively Christian vision of truth' (Christian Hermeneutics[Oxford, 1995] p. 72). In this paper I examine Fodor's attempt to construct a Christian or transformational theory of truth. I argue that his analysis of truth in terms of transformation leads to a concept of truth which is both subjective and relative. I argue further that Fodor's truth theory is either committed to a version of creative anti-realism, according to which the existence of basic structure of the world is determined by our linguistic activities, or it implies that although our language doesn't correspond to the world, we should go on making our theological truth claims anyway. I conclude that Fodor's Christian theory of truth is in most crucial respects not Christian at all. [source] Models of Discourse and Hermeneutics in Octavio Paz's El Laberinto de la SoledadBULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 2 2001Anthony Stanton This article explores how certain presuppositions govern our interpretations of this canonical text by Octavio Paz. I trace its biographical and textual origins, the book's peculiar reception, some of its multiple intellectual sources, and the problem of genre and how these hermeneutic discourses and epistemological tools interact. Structure (the relationship between psychology and history), rhetorical strategies and central symbols and metaphors that give the book its unity and complexity are also discussed. I conclude that we can read this hybrid work simultaneously as essay, narrative text, autobiography and modern epic myth: it is both an analytic or ironic deconstruction and an imaginative, symbolic construction of individual and collective identity. [source] An Elaboration of the Transformative Approach to Practical Theory: Its Connections with Gadamer's Philosophical HermeneuticsCOMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 4 2010Joanna Brook This article is a response to Communication Theory special issue editor Kevin Barge's (2001) call for "further conversation about practical theorizing." It provides an elaboration of the transformative approach to practical theory, foregrounding its moral,ethical dimensions. I demonstrate a connection between the stance of the transformative theorists and aspects of H. G. Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, primarily a focus on the artful cultivation and development of phronesis, or practical wisdom. Further study of this connection between the transformative theorists and Gadamer will support and extend the future theorization of the transformative approach to practical theory. Une élaboration de l'approche transformatrice de la théorie pratique : ses liens avec l'herméneutique philosophique de Gadamer Cet article répond à l'appel de Kevin Barge (2001), rédacteur-en-chef d'un numéro spécial de Communication Theory, invitant « plus de conversations à propos de la théorisation pratique ». L'article offre une élaboration de l'approche transformatrice de la théorie pratique, mettant en relief ses dimensions morales-éthiques. Je démontre un lien entre la position des théoriciens transformateurs et des aspects de la philosophie herméneutique de Gadamer, particulièrement une attention à la culture et au développement soignés de la phronèsis, ou sagesse pratique. Une étude plus poussée du lien entre les théoriciens transformateurs et Gadamer appuiera et développera la théorisation future de l'approche transformatrice de la théorie pratique. Ausführungen zum transformativen Ansatz der praktischen Theorie: Zum Zusammenhang mit der philosophischen Hermeneutik von Gadamer Dieser Aufsatz ist eine Reaktion auf den Aufruf des Herausgebers Kevin Barge in der Sonderausgabe der Zeitschrift Communication Theory (2001), sich weiterführend mit praktischer Theorie zu befassen. Er bietet eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem transformativen Ansatz zur praktischen Theorie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung moral-ethischer Dimensionen. Ich zeige eine Verbindung zwischen der Haltung der transformativen Theoretiker und Aspekten der philosophischen Hermeneutik von H.G. Gadamer auf und fokussiere dabei vornehmlich auf die kunstvolle Kultivierung und Entwicklung von Phronesis also praktischer Klugheit. Die zukünftige Auseinandersetzung zur Verknüpfung von transformativen Theoretikern und Gadamer wird helfen, die Theoriearbeit zum transformativen Ansatz in der praktischen Theorie zu stützen und weiterzuentwickeln. Una Elaboración de la Aproximación Transformativa de la Teoría Práctica: Sus Conexiones con la Filosofía Hermenéutica de Gadamer Resumen Este ensayo es una respuesta hacia la edición especial de Communication Theory de la llamada del editor Kevin Barge (2001) para "continuar la conversación sobre la teorización práctica." Provee una elaboración de la aproximación transformativa de la teoría práctica, poniendo en primer plano sus dimensiones morales-éticas. Demuestro una conexión entre la postura de los teóricos transformativos y los aspectos de la filosofía hermenéutica de H. G. Gadamer, focalizando primeramente en la cultivación astuta y el desarrollo de proesis o sabiduría práctica. Un estudio más profundo de esta conexión entre los teóricos transformativos y Gadamer apoyará y extenderá la teorización futura de la aproximación transformativa hacia la teoría práctica. [source] Sexual abuse in a preschool setting: child reports, hermeneutics and the lawACTA PAEDIATRICA, Issue 8 2000D Lagerberg No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Bible among Lutherans in America: The ELCA as a Test CaseDIALOG, Issue 1 2006By Erik M. Heen Abstract:, This article describes the biblical hermeneutics that inform the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America by comparing the ELCA's tradition of biblical interpretation with that of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. It sets both against the great social and intellectual challenges of the early twentieth century, including the modernist/fundamentalist controversy. One commonality that surfaces is that both church bodies appropriated pre-modern hermeneutical impulses for "counter modern" biblical apologetics. In this process the LC-MS privileged the period of Lutheran Orthodoxy (17th century) while the ELCA constructed its hermeneutical paradigm through a recovery of the early Reformation (Luther). This observation suggests that both interpretive trajectories need further historical as well as theological review and revision. [source] Reconceptualizing Validity for Classroom AssessmentEDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT: ISSUES AND PRACTICE, Issue 4 2003Pamela A. Moss This article explores the shortcomings of conventional validity theory for guiding classroom assessment practice and suggests additional theoretical resources from sociocultural theory and hermeneutics to complement and challenge conventional theory. To illuminate these concerns and possibilities in a concrete context, the author uses her own classroom experience in teaching a qualitative research methods course. The importance of examining cases of assessment practice in context for developing, teaching, and evaluating validity theory is discussed. [source] UNDERSTANDING THE OTHER/UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES: TOWARD A CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE ABOUT "PRINCIPLES' IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHEDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 3 2005Pamela A. Moss The recent federal interest in advancing "scientifically based research," along with the National Research Council's 2002 report Scientific Research in Education (SRE), have provided space and impetus for a more general dialogue across discourse boundaries within the field of educational research. The goal of this article is to develop and illustrate principles for an educative dialogue across research discourses. I have turned to Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and the critical dialogue that surrounds it to seek guidance about how we might better understand one another's perspectives and learn more about ourselves through the encounter. To illustrate these principles, I consider the dialogue between SRE authors and critics that was published in Educational Researcher shortly after the release of the report. I focus in particular on one of the many issues about which misunderstandings seem to arise , the nature, status, and role of generalizations , and point to some instructive challenges that each of the articles seems to raise for the others. Finally, I propose what I argue is a more prudent aspiration for general principles in educational research: developing the principles through which open critique and debate across differences might occur and through which sound decisions about particular programs for research might be made. [source] 4. THE MATERIAL PRESENCE OF THE PASTHISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 3 2006EWA DOMANSKA ABSTRACT This article deals with the material presence of the past and the recent call in the human sciences for a "return to things." This renewed interest in things signals a rejection of constructivism and textualism and the longing for what is "real," where "regaining" the object is conceived as a means for re-establishing contact with reality. In the context of this turn, we might wish to reconsider the (ontological) status of relics of the past and their function in mediating relations between the organic and the inorganic, between people and things, and among various kinds of things themselves for reconceptualizing the study of the past. I argue that the future will depend on whether and how various scholars interested in the past manage to modify their understanding of the material remnants of the past, that is, things as well as human, animal, and plant remains. In discussing this problem I will refer to Martin heidegger's distinction between an object and a thing, to bruno latour's idea of the agency of things and object-oriented democracy, and to Don Ihde's material hermeneutics. To illustrate my argument I will focus on some examples of the ambivalent status of the disappeared person (dead or alive) in argentina, which resists the oppositional structure of present versus absent. In this context, the disappeared body is a paradigm of the past itself, which is both continuous with the present and discontinuous from it, which simultaneously is and is not. Since there are no adequate terms to analyze the "contradictory" or anomalous status of the present-absent dichotomy, I look for them outside the binary oppositions conventionally used to conceptualize the present-absent relationship in our thinking about the past. for this purpose I employ Algirdas Julien Greimas's semiotic square. [source] The Ideal Explanatory Text in History: A Plea for EcumenismHISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 3 2004Tor Egil Førland ABSTRACT This article presents Peter Railton's analysis of scientific explanation and discusses its application in historiography. Although Railton thinks covering laws are basic in explanation, his account is far removed from Hempel. The main feature of Railton's account is its ecumenism. The "ideal explanatory text," a central concept in Railton's analysis, has room for not only causal and intentional, but also structural and functional explanations. The essay shows this by analyzing a number of explanations in history. In Railton's terminology all information that reduces our insecurity as to what the explanandum is due is explanatory. In the "encyclopedic ideal explanatory text," different kinds of explanation converge in the explanandum from different starting points. By incorporating pragmatic aspects, Railton's account is well suited to show how explanations in historiography can be explanatory despite their lack of covering laws or tendency statements. Railton's account is also dynamic, showing how the explanatory quest is a never-ending search for better illumination of the ideal explanatory text. Railton's analysis is briefly compared to, and found compatible with, views on explanation presented by David Lewis, C. Behan McCullagh, and R. G. Collingwood. Confronted with Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics and Donald Davidson's insistence on the indeterminacy of interpretation, the essay suggests that the objectivity of the ideal explanatory text should be regarded as local, limited to the description under which the action is seen. [source] Understanding the design of information technologies for knowledge management in organizations: a pragmatic perspectiveINFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Issue 2 2007Tom Butler Abstract., Researchers report mixed findings on the successful application of information technologies (IT) for knowledge management (KM). The primary difficulty is argued to be the use of information management techniques and concepts to design and develop KM Tools. Also problematic is the existence of a multiplicity of KM technologies, the application and use of which differs across organizations. This paper argues that these problems stem, in part, from the information system field's over-reliance on design concepts from the functionalist paradigm. Hence, our contention that alternative perspectives, which bring into focus issues of ontology and epistemology, need to be brought to bear in order to understand the challenges involved in the design and deployment of IT artefacts in knowledge management systems (KMS). The philosophy of technology, with its emphasis on the primacy of praxis, and which incorporates ontological and epistemological concepts from phenomenology and hermeneutics, is applied to the findings of a participative action research study to illustrate how social actors interpret and understand worldly phenomena and subsequently share their knowledge of the life-world using IT. The outcome of this marriage of situated practical theory and philosophy is a set of design principles to guide the development of a core KM Tool for KMS. [source] An analysis of narratives to identify critical thinking contexts in psychiatric clinical practiceINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010Mi Suk Mun PhD RN Mun MS. International Journal of Nursing Practice 2010; 16: 75,80 An analysis of narratives to identify critical thinking contexts in psychiatric clinical practice The development of students' critical thinking abilities is one of the greatest challenges facing contemporary nursing educators. Nursing educators should know about what kind of contents or situations need critical thinking. The research was undertaken to identify the critical thinking contexts that nursing students confront in psychiatric clinical practices. Students were asked to document their everyday experience. The narratives were analysed and interpreted from the philosophical notion of hermeneutics. Four themes emerged as critical thinking contexts: anxiety, conflict, hyper-awareness, dilemmas. Writing narratives appear to provide opportunities for reflection in addition to facilitating critical thinking and communicative skills in students. Also, for the instructor, students' clinical narratives could provide insight to understand how students are thinking and to share student's personal difficulties. [source] Hermeneutics and the Doctrine of Scripture: Why They Need Each OtherINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2010FRANCIS WATSON Current attempts to understand Scripture theologically typically appeal either to modern hermeneutics or to more traditional doctrines of Scripture , but not to both together. It is argued here that hermeneutics can help to identify and resolve certain problems bequeathed to posterity by the characteristic sixteenth-century equation of Scripture with ,Word of God'. The problems in question relate to the past and present modes of divine speech, the relation of text to community and the fundamental significance of the ,Word of God' concept itself. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||