加尔文释经学和当代诠释学的关系

Hermeneutical Discussions Today and the Relevance of Calvin

余达心(Carver Yu) ； 简丹

《基督教文化學刊》 10期 (2003/12) Pp. 3-24

並列摘要

The post-modern way of reading belongs uniquely to the post-industrial culture, where ideas or knowledge, no different from other artifacts, are manufactured, for use and in particular for entertainment. Aesthetic experience is therefore the sole objective in reading a text. Such an understanding of reading is of course legitimate to the kind of text fabricated in the post-industrial culture. Misapplying this mode of reading for pure aesthetic experience can be disastrous. There are texts which simply defy such mode of reading. Different texts call for different reading, and readers should turn their attention to the text itself. The case in point is the reading of scripture in the Christian tradition. According to Calvin, Scripture is a book of life and has to be read as such and therefore with an utmost seriousness. Calvin regards exposition of Scripture as engagement of God's presence, which claims the total obedience of an expositor so that the Holy Spirit may work in him and enable him to sense the presence of God.