Abstract
Whitehead offered a framework for interpretation of texts quite different from that of the prevailing hermeneutical tradition. This framework consists of his analysis of perception with its contrast between clear but indirect perceptions and direct but vague ones, and his analysis of how a selfcreating entity considers propositions or concrete possibilities. Thus the emphasis in this hermeneutic will be on the process of reading with its repetition and novelty, and the aim will be to include in one's interpretation as large a field of contrasting insights as can be brought into harmony. William A. Beardslee is Professor of Religion at Emory University. He is the author of A House for Hope: A Study in Process and Biblical Thought (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1972), and recently edited Semeia 12 and 13: The Poetics of Faith: Essays Offered to Amos Niven Wilder (1978).
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