Reading Scripture with a Scalpel

手術刀式的經典閱讀

曼諾羅普羅斯(Mark Manolopoulos)

《漢語基督教學術論評》 13期 (2012/06) Pp. 7-25

https://doi.org/10.30106/SCSAIJBTP.201206.0001

摘要

今天，有思想的信徒應該如何閱讀經典？本文利用尼采所提到的手術刀（和鎚子），並且建議我們根據一種新尼采的、新啟蒙的、既粗野又巧妙的思想方式和閱讀方式來閱讀宗教文本─無論那是猶太－基督教、伊斯蘭教或佛教的文本，它是由追求自由和進步的理性渴望所推動。著眼於聖經，手術式閱讀的第一個主要的動作是剔除大量的壓迫性經文。接著，我們以手術式的方式來閱讀兩段經文─創世記第一章第一節和傳道書的一段經文，揭露出種族－政治的寶貴洞見。

關鍵字

尼采 ； 新啟蒙 ； 創世記 ； 傳道書 ； 享樂主義

並列摘要

How should the thinking believer read Scripture today? The article draws on the Nietzschean reference to the scalpel (and the hammer) and proposes that we read religious writings-be they Judeo-Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, etc.-according to a neo-Nietzschean, neo-Enlightenmental way of thinking and reading that is both savage and subtle, as it is driven by the rational desire for freedom and progressiveness. Focusing on the Bible in this particular work, a first major move of scalpelic reading is the excision of large slabs of oppressive biblical texts. Next, two biblical passages-the opening verses of Genesis and a passage from Ecclesiastes-are read scalpelically, disclosing ethico-politically valuable insights. The essay ends with the imperative that scalpelic skepsis becomes scalpelic praxis i.e., emancipatory-revolutionary struggle.

並列關鍵字

Nietzsche ； neo-Enlightenment ； Genesis ； Ecclesiastes ； hedonism

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