Poetical Postmodern Exegesis: Paul Ricoeur and Olivier-Thomas Venard in Dialogue

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dc.contributor.authorWeisel, Aaron James
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-09T12:53:32Z
dc.date.available2025-04-09T12:53:32Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractIn a postmodern linguistic turn, Paul Ricoeur pays great attention to the subject and the Biblical text itself. This helpfully presents a very pristine text, one which can move and re-create the subject who encounters the text with humility. However, when it comes to Biblical exegesis specifically, Ricoeur’s method is immanentist, a historical, and unhelpfully rejects any interpretive authority. Olivier-Thomas Venard, like Ricoeur, pays great attention to the sign-character of the Bible’s language, but offers a more holistic exegesis which takes the Bible on its own terms and is metaphysically and historically grounded. In this article, I first lay out Ricoeur’s poetical exegetical project and offer interpretive and metaphysical critiques; specifically, I contend that his “distanciated” reading of the Bible and his rejection of authority fail to interpret the Bible on its own terms. I then turn to Venard, who sympathizes with Ricoeur’s subjective and linguistic turn while remaining grounded in interpretive authority, history, and providence, offering what Matthew Levering calls a “participatory exegesis.”
dc.identifier.citation"Verbum Vitae", 2025, T. 43, nr 1, s. 165-184
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/vv.17573
dc.identifier.issn2451-280X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/8619
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KUL
dc.rightsAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectPaul Ricoeur
dc.subjectOlivier-Thomas Venard
dc.subjectPoetics
dc.subjectPostmodernity
dc.subjectBiblical interpretation
dc.titlePoetical Postmodern Exegesis: Paul Ricoeur and Olivier-Thomas Venard in Dialogue
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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