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Abstract
In the present article I offer a discussion of Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and its relationship to postcolonial biblical criticism, which partly implicated to a multi-faith hermeneutical method. It included the examination of several issues such as the location of the application of the method, methodical options, critical appraisal to the method, as well as its significance for contextual Bible study within my Asian and Indonesian contexts. I put forward as well a critical discussion of several examples of the way Asian hermeneuticians and theologians using the method. I conclude it with my own hermeneutical standpoint through the elaboration on a cross-textual reading of sacred texts and its function as an important instrument within the field of interreligious dialogue.
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In the present article I offer a discussion of Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and its relationship to postcolonial biblical criticism, which partly implicated to a multi-faith hermeneutical method
Preman Niles (1985: 283), dengan kuat dan bernuansa mengetengahkan: “The most acute criticism of the commonly practiced mode of the interpretation of text and context in Asian Biblical Hermeneutics is whether theology is always a matter of relating text to context? Or is it not a matter of relating context to text so that the context may speak to the text? Is Asia there to receive? Has it nothing to contribute?”
“Inter-faith Hermeneutics: An Example and Some Implications”, dalam Sugirtharajah (ed.), Voices from the Margin, New York: Orbis Books, hlm. 352363
Summary
Sebagaimana telah dijelaskan, berada dalam lingkup hermeneutik multi-iman. Gugahan untuk berhermeneutik multi-iman berada pada strategi atau dimensi kedua, yakni dalam konteks pluralitas-hibriditas dari berbagai teks-teks suci atau sakral yang dimiliki oleh Asia sebagai teks Asia. Pembacaan Alkitab yang mono-scriptural tidak selayaknya diperlakukan sebagai norma universal pada dirinya sendiri, namun sebagai partner dialog bagi satu sama lain dalam realitas multi-iman Asia. Sehubungan dengan hermeneutik multi-iman atau multi-faith hermeneutics—di tengah realitas adanya beragam teks sakral atau Kitab Suci di dunia Asia—kita sudah diingatkan Soares-Prabhu bahwa semangat untuk mengolah mite-mite tradisional dan teks suci di Asia bukan dalam rangka membuktikan bahwa kekristenan itu cocok dengan agama-agama lokal (Asia) namun bahwa perjumpaan Alkitab dan teks-teks sakral itu dapat menghasilkan suatu inter-tekstualitas yang lebih luas dan sekaligus membuahkan dialog lintas kultur yang berkelanjutan (1995: 281)
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