In view of the much-diagnosed crisis of biblical hermeneutics, this article applies ideas of the Lutheran theologian Hermann Sasse (1895-1976) that aim at a reflexion of the reformatory hermeneutic from a confessional point of view to address the challenges of modernity. Sasse agrees with Protestant reformers that the Bible in its entirety is God's ward. Simultaneously he calls for the unlimited acknowledgment of its human character. In Sasse's view this paradox is based on the incarnation of Jesus Christ. This is why he transfers the Chalcedonian two-natures doctrine to biblical hermeneutics. The result is a hermeneutic of aspects that correlates revelation and history, divine inspiration and human authorship, and clarity and contradictoriness of the Scripture in a differentiated and productive manner.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2019/2 Zweimonatsschrift (2019)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Volkmar, Simon

Schlagwörter: Biblische Hermeneutik Schriftprinzip Sasse, Hermann