The address of reality as the voice of God in theological interpretation

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title The address of reality as the voice of God in theological interpretation
 
Creator Benjamins, Rick
 
Subject Theology;Philosophy of Religion; Hermeneutics theology; science; hermeneutics; Dalferth; Caputo; Lauster; Kearney; Latour; call; voice of God
Description The relationship between theology and the sciences can be studied from a hermeneutical point of view. Essential to religion are experiences in which reality calls or addresses us. Ingolf Dalferth and John Caputo have reflected on such a call in various ways. This article claims that the call of reality shows the world to be ‘more’ than it is, as has been elaborated in the work of Jörg Lauster and Richard Kearney. In theological interpretation, we can identify the call of reality as the voice of God. With reference to Bruno Latour, both theology’s correspondence and distance to the sciences are explained in the wake of this identification.Contribution: This article explores the relationship between theology and the sciences and contributes to a hermeneutical understanding of reality’s call as the voice of God. It concludes that theology’s approach to reality is more close, intimate, or resonant than a scientific approach.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2023-08-14
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Literary Analysis
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v79i2.8678
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 79, No 2 (2023); 6 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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