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6 - The Gospels and the Reader

from Part I - Approaching the Gospels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2021

By
Sandra M. Schneiders
Edited by
Stephen C. Barton  and
Todd Brewer
Stephen C. Barton
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

Narrates a shift in reading methods from notions of objectivity and authorial intent to a reader-oriented approach which emphasizes the reader as the subject who interprets the text. Drawing upon the philosophical hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer, Schneiders argues that reading scripture is an event with the potential to transform the reader through the transcendent reality mediated by the text.

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Paul RicoeurHans-Georg Gadamerhermeneuticsliberation theologyfeminist theologytheological interpretation of scripture
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 112 - 134
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Fowl, Stephen E., and Jones, L. Gregory, Reading in Communion: Scripture and Ethics in Christian Life (London: SPCK, 1991)Google Scholar
Green, Joel B., ed., Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010)Google Scholar
Jasper, David, A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2004)Google Scholar
Kort, Wesley A., ‘Take, Read’: Scripture, Textuality, and Cultural Practice (University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996)Google Scholar
Schneiders, Sandra M., The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture, 2nd ed. (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1999)Google Scholar
Schōkel, Luis Alonso, A Manual of Hermeneutics (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998)Google Scholar
Thiselton, Anthony C., New Horizons in Hermeneutics (London: HarperCollins, 1992)Google Scholar
Watson, Francis, Text, Church and World: Biblical Interpretation in Theological Perspective (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994)Google Scholar

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