The literal sense and the sensus plenior revisited
In the first part, the author provides a historical survey of the idea of the literal sense of Scripture up to the period of the Reformation. Theological interpretation was assumed to be the strongest when it rested on the literal sense: The School of Antioch, Hugh of St Victor or Nicholas of Lyra s...
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| Dokumentumtípus: | Könyv része |
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1992
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| Sorozat: | Acta Universitatis Szegediensis de Attila József nominatae : papers in english and american studies
4 Papers in English and American studies : Tomus IV. - Literary theory and biblical hermeneutics : proceedings of the International Conference: "Reading Scripture - Literary Criticism and Biblical Hermeneutics", Pannonhalma, 4-6 July, 1991 4 |
| Kulcsszavak: | Hermeneutika - bibliai, Bibliamagyarázat, Teológia |
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| Online Access: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/68660 |
| Tartalmi kivonat: | In the first part, the author provides a historical survey of the idea of the literal sense of Scripture up to the period of the Reformation. Theological interpretation was assumed to be the strongest when it rested on the literal sense: The School of Antioch, Hugh of St Victor or Nicholas of Lyra stressed the significance of the sensus literalis against the dominant allegorical tendencies in the Middle Ages. These Christian scholars have learnt much from the idea of peshat in Jewish exegesis. Luther also stressed the significance of the literal sense and with regard to the Old Testament his concern was to explore the sensus literalis propheticus. Some of the Reformers like Flacius or Perkins consciously adopted the term „scope" by which the literal sense was to be disclosed. The Reformers were interested in the scope of the text and not in the scope of the author, nor in the historical reference. The literal sense has gone through some distortions in the centuries following the Reformation. On the populist level it has degenerated into literalism or fundamentalism. The attitude of seeking the criterion of the „truth" of texts in the external events are probably due to what Northrop Frye calls the „descriptive-demotic" phase of language. A distortion of the literal sense has taken place also in high criticism. As Brevard Childs has shown the sensus literalis became identified with the sensus historicus or sensus originalis. The consequence of this attempt was to remove all the interpretative layers of Scripture in order to arrive at the original, authentic meaning. The third part of the paper is concerned with the idea of recovering the integrity of the literal sense. Some models are offered to achieve this, like the notion of the canonical context, the rediscovery of the „scope", a recognition of the sensus plenior of Scripture and fourthly, the literary-critical model of the literal meaning as being presented in the works of Northrop Frye. |
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| Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők: | 155-168 |
| ISSN: | 0230-2780 |