ASIAN HERMENEUTICS IN THEOLOGIZING
Keywords:
THEOLOGIZINGAbstract
What makes theological reflection meaningful and challenging in a
particular context seems to be determined by the world-view of the
people who are engaged in the process of theologizing. The
dialogue between the text and the context mediated through
existential experiences of the theologian opens up the hitherto
unknown depths of the text as well as the context. It challenges
both the transformation of the theologian as well as her or his
context. If theologizing is a meaning-making exercise, this meaning
is filtered through the prism of the world-view of the theologian
who engages himself or herself in the process of theologizing.
[udeo-Christian theology from the beginning of its historical
development tried to combine both the Hebrew and the Greek
world-views and attempted to explain the foundational experience
of God, Humans and the World revealed in through the person of
Jesus Christ. The Asian world-view distinct from the Hebrew and
Greek world-views but not separated from them found hardly any
place in this process of theologizing.
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Benedict XVI "Lecture of the Holy Gather at theUniversity of Regensburg, Tuesday, 12th September, 2006," Petrus 28/10 (October,2006)
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