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Literature and Theology Advance Access originally published online on December 7, 2007
Literature and Theology 2008 22(2):223-236; doi:10.1093/litthe/frm054
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Peregrination, Hermeneutics, Hospitality: On the Way to a Theologically Informed General Hermeneutics

Scott Huelin

Christ College, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 46383, USA

scott.huelin{at}valpo.edu


  Abstract

The recent and laudable revival of ethical criticism, both in its neo-humanist and postmodern forms, leads inexorably to either elitist exclusivism or uncritical relativism. We are, at present, lacking an account of general hermeneutics that can transcend this divide, one that takes seriously the dangers involved in opening oneself to the other while also maintaining the intellectual and moral necessity of hospitality to strangers. An analysis of this problem points, via St Augustine, to the possibility of a theologically informed hermeneutics of hospitality, and the essay goes on to limn the contours, in theory and practice, of such a hermeneutic.


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