The Return of Participatory Scriptural Hermeneutics in Evangelicalism: An Augustinian Philosophy of Communication

<p>Using a philosophy of communication approach adapted from St. Augustine’s rhetorical theory, I propose the recovery of Augustinian scriptural hermeneutics to meet the hermeneutical crisis in current Evangelicalism. Evangelical identity is centered on scripturally mediated belief and mission that ties together its ecumenical coalition, but its hermeneutic principles were co-opted by modernism and have now become further embattled by the turn away from modernism to philosophical hermeneutic approaches. Augustine’s hermeneutical principles of charity, hermeneutical humility through responsiveness to the Word, and the social/communal action of lived hermeneutics are explained in terms of Augustine’s pre-modern cosmology of “participation” and are clarified by comparison with the hermeneutic theories of Gadamer, Ricoeur, and their Evangelical respondents. Fulfilling its philosophy of communication emphasis, this project concludes with a conceptual sketch of Evangelical interpretation as practiced through Augustinian participatory hermeneutics.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Worldwide Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Hill, Joshua David

Contributors dc:contributor

• Janie Harden Fritz
• Ronald C. Arnett
• Richard Thames

• Augustine
• bible
• Evangelical
• Hermeneutics
• participation
• philosophy of communication

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/38

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1037