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Ecclesial Exegesis

Ecclesial Exegesis

Vall, Gregory

Paperback

Bible StudiesCatholicism

ISBN10: 0813235227
ISBN13: 9780813235226
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: Dec 12 2023
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

There is broad support today for the idea that biblical scholarship ought to be informed by the faith of the Church and serve the life of the Church. In a word, it should be ecclesial. There is far less agreement, however, when one asks how this goal is to be achieved and what ecclesial exegesis ought to look like. In 1988, Joseph Ratzinger put forth his Method C proposal, calling for the development of a new exegetical and hermeneutical synthesis. This would be neither a retreat to the patristic-medieval approach (Method A) nor the continued hegemony of the historical-critical approach (Method B). The latter must be purified of its positivism through a transformational encounter with the former, so that the gifts of both might be released for the life of the Church. Such a synthesis, Ratzinger claimed, would require the philosophical, theological, exegetical, and hermeneutical work of at least a whole generation of scholars.

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