RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND INTERPRETATION
A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
Keywords:
Religious Experience, Christian, Interpretation, Covenant, Resurrection, Life, Poor, Blind, MaimedAbstract
The interpretation of ancient texts focuses on issues which can be common to several religious traditions.' Within the Jewish and Christian expressions of theology over the centuries, the task of relating the contents of earlier documents to different cultures and philosophies of life has been tackled from many angles. In recent years the work of Claude Levi-Strauss and Paul Ricoeur has suggested new approaches to fundamental hermeneutical questions.
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