Wie kommt die Exegese in der altkirchlichen Predigt an?
The present article investigates the relationship between biblical exegesis and preaching in late ancient Christianity. The concept of a "fourfold sense of Holy Scripture" is well known as a hermeneutical theory, but it remains a question whether it informed the actual interpretation of th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2022
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Kerygma und Dogma
Year: 2022, Volume: 68, Issue: 4, Pages: 266-289 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Origenes 185-254
/ Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430
/ Petrus, Chrysologus 380-450
/ Exegesis
/ Sermon
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity RE Homiletics |
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| Summary: | The present article investigates the relationship between biblical exegesis and preaching in late ancient Christianity. The concept of a "fourfold sense of Holy Scripture" is well known as a hermeneutical theory, but it remains a question whether it informed the actual interpretation of the Bible for the purpose of liturgical preaching. The paper examines the hermeneutical theories of Origen and Augustine, and, for the sake of comparison, their homilies on the Book of Genesis and the Gospel of John respectively. Both aim at laying open different levels of meaning within the Scriptures by employing methods of grammar and rhetoric, which they had themselves learned and taught at the public schools of the Greco-Roman world. Without theorizing his practice, a similar picture emerges from the sermons of Peter Chrysologus, who uses allegorical and typological exegesis as well as other hermeneutical tools in order to teach the Christian life and faith to his flock. The paper concludes with reflections upon the meaning of "historical" and "allegorical" in the premodern and post-Enlightenment periods: the understanding of "history" has dramatically changed so that a synchronic reading of the Bible is no longer feasible. Therefore, patristic allegorical interpretation cannot be appropriated in contemporary preaching without paying attention to these historical and theological changes. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-8020 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kerygma und Dogma
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/kedo.2022.68.4.266 |