New hermeneutics
As a new hermeneutics in which it is theology , a methodological approach refers to the biblical particularly those of the texts, the New Testament by hermeneutic work existential interpretation. The new hermeneutics is based on Rudolf Bultmann and was mainly used by Ernst Fuchs , Gerhard Ebeling and James McConkey Robinson .
description
Bultmann assumed that the authors of the New Testament and their (mentally presented) readers shared a mythological worldview. This has meanwhile been replaced by a scientific worldview. Bultmann therefore considered it necessary to translate the New Testament into this modern worldview by demythologizing it in order to work out the core of the Christian preaching and make it accessible again.
The New Hermeneutics method is intended to solve this problem. She discovered the core of the proclamation in language itself. Language has the "character of opening up the history of individual life" and thus moves the existence of man. Stories can address feelings and thoughts and thereby make people receptive to the proclamation. This is also called a " speech event ".
Fuchs saw the novelty of his “New Hermeneutics” in the fact that he no longer (only) asked about the meaning of the text, but rather about the “hermeneutical help” that the text provided. For Fuchs, hermeneutics was a language teaching of faith. From the texts he worked out the "language event of love" in order to build up faith.
Fuchs combined the theology of Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann with the philosophical ideas of Martin Heidegger . He tried to connect Barth's Calvinist theories on the revelation of God with Bultmann's Lutheran theories on human existence before God by employing a phenomenology of language such as Heidegger used in part to describe human existence, the Fuchs as a gift of God grasped. That is why Fuchs called this method a "linguistic theory of faith": Theology's task is essentially hermeneutical, it translates the Holy Scriptures with the help of contemporary terms and in turn converts the present existence into biblical terms.
In this way Fuchs combined the theological language event with existential philosophy. Accordingly, the proclamation of the real love of God in Jesus' word and deed is written down in the Gospels and has thus been preserved as a "gain in language". With God's free proclamation of faith in the Gospel and the “yes of love”, the future for an authentic existence is linguistically opened up, which corresponds to the triad of faith, love, hope .
literature
- James M. Robinson, John B. Cobb (Eds.): New territory in theology. Volume II: The New Hermeneutics. Zurich / Stuttgart 1965.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard N. souls: Ernst Fuchs . In: John H. Hayes (Ed.): Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation . tape 1 : A-J . Abingdon, Nashville 1999, ISBN 0-687-05531-8 , pp. 422 f .
- ↑ Gerhard Ebeling et al. (Ed.): Festschrift for Ernst Fuchs . Mohr, Tübingen 1973, ISBN 3-16-135102-9 , pp. 48 .
- ↑ Ernst Fuchs : Hermeneutics . Müllerschön, Bad Cannstatt 1954, p. III .