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Emancipatory Intercultural Hermeneutics:

LA121206

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Emancipatory Intercultural Hermeneutics:

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Interpreting Theo Sundermeier's Differenzhermeneutik

David W. Congdon

Leiden

Brill

This article introduces and assesses Sundermeier's "hermeneutic of difference" (Differenzhermeneutik). Though he is not well-known in English-speaking circles, the pioneering work of Theo Sundermeier has contributed to a hermeneutical and intercultural turn within the field of missiology, as well as a missiological and practical turn within hermeneutics. He criticizes the western hermeneutical tradition for being text-centric and egocentric, and he replaces the standard hermeneutical models with one that is focused on the practical problem of understanding the stranger. I summarize the four-step process he provides for learning how to understand and coexist with another person, reflect on its missiological implications, and offer a constructive critique in the direction of a distinctively emancipatory intercultural hermeneutic. This article introduces and assesses Sundermeier's "hermeneutic of difference" (Differenzhermeneutik). Though he is not well-known in English-speaking circles, the pioneering work of Theo Sundermeier has contributed to a hermeneutical and intercultural turn within the field of missiology, as well as a missiological and practical turn within hermeneutics. He criticizes the western hermeneutical tradition for being text-centric and egocentric, and he replaces the standard hermeneutical models with one that is focused on the practical problem of understanding the stranger. I summarize the four-step process he provides for learning how to understand and coexist with another person, reflect on its missiological implications, and offer a constructive critique in the direction of a distinctively emancipatory intercultural hermeneutic.

2016

127-146

Mission Studies

33/2

1573-3831

convivencia

hermeneutics

intercultural theology

liberation theology

praxis

translation

David W. Congdon

10.1163/15733831-12341444

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