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Part VI: St. Augustine’s Encounter with Words and the Word
2 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen March 23rd, 2007 in Augustine, Biblical Hermeneutics, Confessions, Hans-Georg Gadamer, HermeneuticsIn agreement with Gadamer, Augustine did not conceive of biblical hermeneutics as akin to solving a math problem—a model which assumes a univocal, “flat” understanding of meaning (and reality) and denies an analogical, “symbolic” approach to meaning (and reality). In contrast with, e.g., a strict grammatico-historical hermeneutic (as instituted by B. Spinoza), the Church Fathers [...]
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