Comments on: Review: Divine Presence Amid Violence (Walter Brueggemann) http://stay-curious.com/archives/2010/02/22/review_brueggemann/ Encouraging curiosity about the world Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Murphy http://stay-curious.com/archives/2010/02/22/review_brueggemann/comment-page-1/#comment-23823 John Murphy Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:06:39 +0000 http://boulders2bits.com/?p=3544#comment-23823 "He believes that the current state of hermeneutics convinces many (including himself) that there is “no single, sure meaning for any text.” Thus, the “revelatory power of the text is discerned and given precisely through the action of interpretation which is always concrete, never universal, always contextualized, never ‘above the fray,’ always filtered through vested interest, never in disinterested purity” (p. ix)." One difficulty with Mr. Brueggemann's hermeneutic is that by making the statement he does not adhere to his own standard. Are we to assume that Mr. Brueggemann had anything other than one single, sure meaning when he wrote that there is "no single, sure meaning for any text"? “He believes that the current state of hermeneutics convinces many (including himself) that there is “no single, sure meaning for any text.” Thus, the “revelatory power of the text is discerned and given precisely through the action of interpretation which is always concrete, never universal, always contextualized, never ‘above the fray,’ always filtered through vested interest, never in disinterested purity” (p. ix).”

One difficulty with Mr. Brueggemann’s hermeneutic is that by making the statement he does not adhere to his own standard. Are we to assume that Mr. Brueggemann had anything other than one single, sure meaning when he wrote that there is “no single, sure meaning for any text”?

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