Reception History as a Challenge to Biblical Theology
In response to Barth's claim that faith is a void filled by the transcendent Word, Bultmann sought to offer an account of the transformation of the believer's consciousness, the self-understanding that occurs in faith. Influenced by Dilthey, Bultmann located such transformation in particul...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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Journal of theological interpretation
Year: 2013, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-185 |
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| Summary: | In response to Barth's claim that faith is a void filled by the transcendent Word, Bultmann sought to offer an account of the transformation of the believer's consciousness, the self-understanding that occurs in faith. Influenced by Dilthey, Bultmann located such transformation in particular moments of encounter with the biblical texts, moments that stand outside the attempt to locate the texts within the span of history. Bultmann's views of the role of human consciousness in the reading of texts are in turn challenged by more recent discussions of reception history by Gadamer, who examines the prior formation of the reader's consciousness by the history of reception of the texts with which he or she engages and by Jauss who also emphasizes the role of readers in shaping the world they inhabit as they engage with texts. This article considers examples from the reception history of the Bible (Luther on Rom 1:17 and a variety of readings of Gal 3:19 on the purpose of the Law) to demonstrate the role the reader plays in sustaining the historical life of a text, through which it continues to address contemporary readers and to contribute to the formation of new forms of life and thought. The reception of texts, through which human self-consciousness is transformed, occurs in a conversation, not only with the text itself but with its major interpreters through the ages, who have shaped contemporary readers' consciousness, and it is out of that conversation that renewed understandings and embodiments of the text arise. |
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| ISSN: | 2576-7933 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of theological interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/26421564 |