Diversity in the Structure of Christian Reasoning

Interpretation, Disagreement, and World Christianity
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29803-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Studies in Systematic Theology

Diversity in the Structure of Christian Reasoning examines the effect of Christian commitments on rationality. When Christians read scripture, traditions supply concepts that shape what counts as normal, good, and true. This book offers an account of how different communities produce divergent readings of the Bible. It considers two examples from World Christianity, first a Bakongo community in central Africa, and then a Tamil bishop in southern India. Each case displays a relation between tradition and reason that reconfigures the hermeneutical picture developed by Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. To see what transpires when readers decide about a correct interpretation, this book offers theologians and scholars of religion a fresh strategy that keeps in view the global character of modern Christianity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Broggi, Joshua

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Hermeneutik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua D. Broggi completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2013. At the University of Oxford he is a member of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and is able to provide teaching in Faculty of Theology and Religion. This is his first book.