Sorry, I couldn't resist pulling this off Singing In The Reign, just in case you didn't catch it since it clearly illustrates Benedict's hermeneutic of faith: from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Behold the Pierced One: An Approach to a Spiritual Christology (G. Harrison, trans.; San Francisco: Ignatius, 1986 [1984]), 44-5:
"From a purely scientific point of view, the legitimacy of an interpretation depends on its power to explain things. In other words, the less it needs to interfere with the sources, the more it respects the corpus as given and is able to show it to be intelligible from within, by its own logic, the more apposite such an interpretation is. Conversely, the more it interferes with the sources, the more it feels obliged to excise and throw doubt on things found there, the more alien to the subject it is. To that extent, its explanatory power is also its ability to maintain the inner unity of the corpus in question. It involves the ability to unify, to achieve a synthesis, which is the reverse of superficial harmonization. Indeed, only faith’s hermeneutic is sufficient to measure up to these criteria."
Jeremy, thanks for the helpful citation! Unfortunately, the link doesn't work, perhaps you could paste it in again and simply divide it into two? Thanks again.
I am New Testament Tutor for St Mellitus College and St Paul's Theological Centre, London. In my postgraduate research (under the supervision of Max Turner) I’m working on a thesis that concerns the christological significance of the language Paul used to describe the relationship between risen Lord and believer. My blog, Chrisendom, is primarily occupied with biblical and theological themes – especially those Apostle Paul shaped, but I try as best as I can to squeeze in a decent amount of inappropriate baloney on the way. For more about me, click here for my interview with biblioblogs' Jim West.
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Can't wait to get my copy. Father Z has been posting some observations from the Italian edition starting here which you may want to bounce off.
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Thanks for the link!
If you're really hooked you might also enjoy this article by Scott Hahn, which was delivered at Baylor University last summer:
The Authority of Mystery: The Biblical Theology of Benedict XVI
http://www.salvationhistory.com/library/scripture/AcademicArticles.cfm
Jeremy Priest -- Detroit, MI USA
Sorry, I couldn't resist pulling this off Singing In The Reign, just in case you didn't catch it since it clearly illustrates Benedict's hermeneutic of faith: from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Behold the Pierced One: An Approach to a Spiritual Christology (G. Harrison, trans.; San Francisco: Ignatius, 1986 [1984]), 44-5:
"From a purely scientific point of view, the legitimacy of an interpretation depends on its power to explain things. In other words, the less it needs to interfere with the sources, the more it respects the corpus as given and is able to show it to be intelligible from within, by its own logic, the more apposite such an interpretation is. Conversely, the more it interferes with the sources, the more it feels obliged to excise and throw doubt on things found there, the more alien to the subject it is. To that extent, its explanatory power is also its ability to maintain the inner unity of the corpus in question. It involves the ability to unify, to achieve a synthesis, which is the reverse of superficial harmonization. Indeed, only faith’s hermeneutic is sufficient to measure up to these criteria."
Jeremy Priest -- Detroit, MI USA
Jeremy, thanks for the helpful citation! Unfortunately, the link doesn't work, perhaps you could paste it in again and simply divide it into two?
Thanks again.
I've pasted the link for the paper on The Biblical Theology of Pope Benedict in two here:
http://www.salvationhistory.com/library/
scripture/AcademicArticles.cfm
Hopefully that does the trick...enjoy!
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