African Contextual Hermeneutics

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" African Contextual Hermeneutics "
Jonathan A. Draper

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082973
Doc. No	:	LA126602
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15743012-02201005‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jonathan A. Draper
Title & Author	:	African Contextual Hermeneutics [Article]\ Jonathan A. Draper
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	22/1-2
Page No	:	3–22
Abstract	:	The role of the missionaries and their widespread dissemination of the Bible in the process of colonisation of Africa problematized the interpretation of its text, particularly in South Africa, where it was used both to legitimate apartheid and in the struggle for liberation. This paper documents the emergence of the “Tri-polar Model” (Grenholm and Patte, as modified by Draper) in African Contextual Hermeneutics, and problematises it in terms of the hegemonic role of the reader’s “ideo-theological orientation” (West). A new way forward is sought through emphasising this role of the reader, but also the possibility of a “willing suspension of disbelief” (Coleridge) in the construction of the “othered self” through “conversation” with the text (Gadamer) and the role of “reading communities” (Fish) in demanding accountability from reader(s). The role of the missionaries and their widespread dissemination of the Bible in the process of colonisation of Africa problematized the interpretation of its text, particularly in South Africa, where it was used both to legitimate apartheid and in the struggle for liberation. This paper documents the emergence of the “Tri-polar Model” (Grenholm and Patte, as modified by Draper) in African Contextual Hermeneutics, and problematises it in terms of the hegemonic role of the reader’s “ideo-theological orientation” (West). A new way forward is sought through emphasising this role of the reader, but also the possibility of a “willing suspension of disbelief” (Coleridge) in the construction of the “othered self” through “conversation” with the text (Gadamer) and the role of “reading communities” (Fish) in demanding accountability from reader(s).
Descriptor	:	“ideo-theological readers”
Descriptor	:	“tripolar method”
Descriptor	:	African contextual hermeneutics
Descriptor	:	reading communities
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15743012-02201005‬