1. HERMENEUTICS

2. HERMENEUTICS hermeneuin HERMENEUTICS Hermes
A messenger who bring the massage of destiny
Being associated with the function of transmuting of what is beyond human understanding into a form of human intelligence can grasp
HERMENEUTICS
The process of bringing to understanding
Which involves
LANGUAGE

3. The process of bringing to understanding Which involves language
The ancient usage of
HERMENEUIN
The process of bringing to understanding
Which involves language
To say
To translate
To explain

4. Hermeneutics Ancient Definition Definition of Hermeneutics
Modern Definition

5. 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Modern Definition of Hermeneutics
According to different “moment” or approach to
the problem of interpretation
Modern Definition 6
of Hermeneutics 1
Theory of biblical exegesis 2
Philological methodology 3
Science of Linguistic Understanding 4
Methodological foundation for Geisteswissenchaften
Existence 5
Phenomenology of
Existential understanding
Recovery 6
The system of interpretation vs
Iconoclasm

6. 1 ≠ Hermeneutic Exegesis Theory of Biblical exegesis
It is the oldest and is still the widespread understanding of the word hermeneutics 1
Theory of Biblical exegesis
Hermeneutic ≠
Exegesis
Early
Recorded: 1654
The rules, METHOD & theory of exegesis
Actual commentary
18 C
Refers to specifically BIBLICAL EXEGESIS
Rec. : 1737
General tendency
To rely on a “system” of interpretation out of which individual passage can be interpreted
Searching for
A “hermeneutical principle”
As a referential guide
Broaden use
19 C
Biblical
In the case the TEXT is generally obscure or SYMBOLIC, require special method to get at its hidden meaning
Non-Biblical

7. Biblical interpreters outlook2
Philological methodology 1
Background
The development of Rationalism 2
The advent of classical philology (18 C) 3
the “truths of reason”
INFERIOR
the accidental “truths of history”
SUPERIOR
Scriptural truths
time & history
above
Biblical interpreters outlook
Bible does not tell man anything true that man would not eventually have recognized through his reason
Challenge
Making Bible relevant to the enlightened rational man
INTELLECTUALIZING of Biblical assertion
Task of exegesis`
Using human natural reason into the text
Finding the great moral truths intended by the New Testament writes but hidden within different historical terms
The need
A historical understanding that would grasp the spirit (Geist) behind the work
TRANSLATING the spirit (Geist) into terms acceptable to enlightened reason
Consequence
Hermeneutics become synonymous with the general Rules of philological exegesis
This rule treats Bible as it treats any other books
Secular theory of interpretation

8. 3 ≠ SCHLEIERMACHER The Science of Linguistic Understanding
Hermeneutics
Standpoint of philology
Schleiermacher
An aggregate of Rules
intellectualizing
Translating the spirit beyond the text into acceptable enlightened reason
Explication, art of presentation, Art of rhetorical formulation
One’s operation to formulate something and bring it to speech
Art of explanation ≠
Art of Understanding
the operation to understand what is spoken
Critique
Yes, it had constituted a large part of hermeneutical theory
But it fall outside the hermeneutics

9. 4 Methodological Foundation for the Geisteswissenchaften
Hermeneutics as
Methodological Foundation for the Geisteswissenchaften 4
Geisteswissenchaften (all disciplines focused on understanding man’s arts, actions, and writings)
Studying
Natural object
Human being
Act of Historical understanding
quantfying
By interpretation of a great expression of human life
By explanation
interpretation
understanding
Naturalistic methocology
Humanistic methodology
HERMENEUTICS

10. Human being’s mode of existence EXISTENTIAL UNDERSTANDING
Hermeneutics as
Phenomenology of Dasein and of existential understanding 5
HEIDEGER
Human being’s mode of existence
understanding
interpretation
EXISTENTIAL UNDERSTANDING