Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Mark 13
Peter C. de Vries
ISBN: | 9781498512299 |
Publisher: | Lexington Books |
Published: | 21 December, 2016 |
Format: | eBook |
Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Mark 13
Peter C. de Vries
The apocalyptic discourse of Mark 13 predicts that cataclysmic events will occur within the generation of Jesus' contemporaries, but readers today know these events have not taken place. Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics enables a reader to understand this text as a presentation of truth rather than as a failed prediction. Ricoeur argues that the meaning of a text is not defined by the author's intention nor by the reader's reception, but by the text itself. Therefore, although Mark 13 was originally
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