Hermeneutical Model Research Articles

Toward a Hermeneutic Model of Cultural Globalization: Four Lessons from Translation Studies

Many scholars study the global diffusion of culture, looking at how institutions spread culture around the world or at how intermediaries (or “cultural brokers”) adapt foreign culture in the local context. This research can tell us much about brokers’ “cultural-matching” or “congruence-building” strategies. To date, however, few scholars have examined brokers’ interpretive work. In this article, the author argues that globalization research needs to pay more attention to interpretation. Building on translation studies, the author shows that brokers’ work is shaped by (1) how they imagine their dual roles, (2) how they imagine different parts of the world, (3) how they interpret a text’s intertextuality, and (4) how their audience imagines the foreign Other. In this way, the author lays the groundwork for a hermeneutic model of cultural globalization.

Simbiosi e telepatia come basi biologiche dell'utopia in Last and First Men di Olaf Stapledon

Utopia is a privileged form of imagining the impossible and one of the central themes of Olaf Stapledon's literary and philosophical production. In Last and First Men he doesn't restrict himself to develop alternative socio-political models but he imagines a radical changing of the human nature, starting from its biological basis. The aim of the present work is to analyze the metaphorical use of biology emerging from the succession of different human species.Through the ‘close reading’ technique guided by Jameson's hermeneutic model of utopia, it will be showed how biological concepts and organic metaphors permeate crosswise the allegorical levels of body, time and collectivity. The focus will be on the theme of telepathy. As a symbolic device of maximum openness to the other, it constitutes the cornerstone of authentic community. It will be showed how this capacity is metaphorically connected to the concepts of symbiosis and symbiogenesis, explicitly represented in the text as mechanisms of speciation. The evolutionary process imagined by Stapledon, in connecting biology and ethics, appear as a critic of the first place of egoism and competition for survival, posited by social Darwinism, in favour of the communitarian ideals of solidarity and cooperation.

ИСТОРИЯ КОНСТИТУИРОВАНИЯ ФИЛОСОФСКОЙ ГЕРМЕНЕВТИКИ: ТРОПЫ ЭСТЕТИЧЕСКОЙ ЭКСПЛИКАЦИИ

The article discusses the most significant, landmark stages of modern philosophical hermeneutics formation in its contextual dialogue with aesthetic discourse. In particular, the formation of the concept “genius recipient” is being studied in the context of the romantic trend of the XVIII century, which formed a new hermeneutic model of a reader’s creative dialogue with the text. Paradoxes of modern aesthetics in their connection with current hermeneutic practices, as well as artistic and aesthetic ways of overcoming various cultural texts fragmentation are analysed separately. The authors conclude that there are many historical and modern ways of interaction between aesthetics and hermeneutics that enrich both philosophical discourses.

Hybridized agency among male early childhood workers as a factor in their career decisions

ABSTRACT This article examines men’s career decisions in Early ChildhoodEducation and Care (ECEC) using feminist post-structural agency theory that postulates a hybridization of ‘male’ and ‘female’ agentic factors. Anzaldúa’s concept of new mestiza provides a theoretical foundation. The research focuses on the careers of three veteran male ECEC workers from different countries who participated in a 5-year longitudinal study using narrative interviews and story line depictions. A hermeneutic model of data analysis revealed participants’ unique blend of ‘male’ and ‘female’ agentic styles responding to challenges of a gender-normed female profession. Cultural context was considered in the analysis. For these men, the status incongruity resulting from their choice of ‘women’s work’ framed career decision-making and led to the construction of particular agentic behaviors. These findings contest gender binary agency paradigms and reconceptualize agency among male ECEC workers as balancing the seeming contradiction between masculinity and a commitment to the ethos of caring.

The (female) situated musical body

The starting point for the study presented in this article is constituted by experiences of using Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy and Iris Marion Young theories aiming to describe and understand the becoming of musical women in Swedish schools. Earlier research conducted outside the area of music shows that Beauvoir’s theories can help to explain – and provide means of change for – situations where there is a risk that traditional gender roles will be conserved. A majority of gender studies in the field of music education are based on the performativity theory of Judith Butler. In comparison, de Beauvoir states that repetitions and habits are stratified in the body as experiences, and that human beings are able to make choices in a situation. The aim of the study is to explore how caring is nurtured among girls in Swedish music educational settings. Material generated through two phenomenological studies conducted within specialist music programs in lower respectively higher secondary education in Sweden, constituted the empirical base for conducting re-analysis. This re-analysis followed a hermeneutical phenomenological analytical model. Examples of how caring seemed to be nurtured among girls in music education appeared at different levels and in different situations. It concerns actions made by the girls aiming to make the social and musical setting function in agreed upon ways, namely in the form of taking initiatives, filling “gaps”, and being flexible. Finally we reflect upon causes and changes in relation to actions that seem to establish and maintain female students as immanent, and non-able to run their own projects.

Relationality and Commitment: Ethics and Ontology in Heidegger's Aristotle

ABSTRACTThis article discusses the tension between social relationality and self-relationality central to Heidegger's ontology of Dasein and the possible ways of reconciling this tension. Arguing that this is a tension between communicability and existential commitments, the article poses the question: How are existential commitments responsive to communication? After problematizing the quasi-Kantian and communitarian ways of settling the tension, the article uses Heidegger's early reading of Aristotle to develop a third hermeneutic model of ethical relationality according to which existential commitments are shareable in communication, since ethos – the existential posture towards the good – arises out of pathos that exposes Dasein to coexistence. The account of ethical relationality found in Heidegger's interpretation of Aristotle thus takes the world to be a shared and dynamic ontological condition and emphasize that the world constitutes selfhood in a way that is constantly at stake in ethical communication.

Many Roads Lead Eastward: Overtures to Catholic Biblical Theology by Robert D. Miller II

Reviewed by: Many Roads Lead Eastward: Overtures to Catholic Biblical Theology by Robert D. Miller II Andrew R. Davis robert d. miller ii, Many Roads Lead Eastward: Overtures to Catholic Biblical Theology (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2016). Pp. x + 113. Paper $17. In this slim volume Miller distills decades of reflection and conversation on the relationship between exegesis and theology into a thoughtful and highly readable survey of different hermeneutical models, leading to his own proposal of a model that seeks to "actualize" the biblical text. [End Page 120] After an opening chapter that diagnoses the divide separating biblical scholarship from systematic theology, and a second chapter that provides a concise and instructive discussion of inspiration, M. arrives at the heart of the book. Adopting with some modification Avery Dulles's Models of Revelation (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1992) as a framework, he surveys five different hermeneutical models and some of their representative practitioners: Revelation as Expression, which locates meaning in the biblical text itself rather than in its authors and tends to focus on one or more unifying themes (H. D. Preuss, Walther Eichrodt, Gerhard von Rad); Revelation in Canon, which interprets individual texts within their larger scriptural context (Brevard S. Childs, Rolf Rendtorff, James A. Sanders); Revelation as Event, which focuses on God's saving actions (magnalia Dei) as the locus of revelation rather than the biblical narrative that recounts them (G. Ernest Wright, Bruce Vawter, Jean Daniélou); Revelation as Expectation, which finds meaning in the ways communities are transformed by engaging biblical texts in all their diversity (Walter Brueggemann, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Edward Schillebeeckx); and Revelation in Ecclesia, which sees meaning in the communities who put into practice the plain sense of Scripture (Hans Frei, George Lindbeck, Stephen E. Fowl). Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each model, this survey provides an evenhanded synthesis of the ways exegetes engage Scripture as revelation. This survey culminates in M.'s own proposed model, which he terms "actualization." It begins with establishing the plain sense of a biblical text through literary and historical-critical methodologies and then involves situating this reading within the faith expressed elsewhere in the Bible. This intrabiblical hermeneutics is a kind of Traditionsgeschichte, which recognizes the contribution of individual texts to the development of this biblical faith. For M., this "tradition" is no different from Tradition, such that the historical background of a biblical text is linked to its "foreground" in the NT and history of interpretation. Both background and foreground are vital for theological exegesis, and, for Christians, both converge on Christ. But this convergence is seen only in hindsight, and M. insists that an OT text first be read "according to principles and categories intrinsic to that text" (p. 85). The last step of M.'s model returns us to his primary goal, namely, the intersection of biblical exegesis and systematic theology; he calls on biblical scholars "to examine ways in which modern theologians (Catholic and Protestant) appropriate the text's 'symbols'" (p. 88). The strengths of this book are numerous. First, it provides a timely argument for the indispensability of historical criticism for theological exegesis. M.'s training in the former and commitment to the latter enable him to bridge the divide he has diagnosed. An especially welcome feature of his analysis is his engagement with various church documents related to Scripture and with systematic theologians. Having called for theological exegesis that is more than "merely Wissenschaft plus pious reflection or parenesis" (p. 9), he models the hermeneutical engagement he has recommended. Lastly, I would highlight the book's readability, by which I mean its brevity and tone. M. has covered much ground in a short space, and his writing style is amiable and learned without being overly academic. For all of these qualities the book deserves a wide readership. As for weaknesses, M.'s proposal could benefit from an exegetical test case. Over a third of Dulles's book, which provided the framework for this book, is devoted to applying [End Page 121] his and other models of revelation to various theological topics. If M. had followed suit and applied his hermeneutical approach to a particular biblical text, he would have thickened...

ГЕРМЕНЕВТИКА ВІДМІННОСТІ ТА ІМОВІРНІСНИЙ СУБ’ЄКТ (НА МАТЕРІАЛІ ТВОРЧОСТІ Д. БАРТЕЛМІ)

Introduction. The article is devoted to the consideration of the formation of hermeneutics of difference in the context of transformations of ideas about understanding and subject in modern discourse and narrative. Th e relevance of the article is determined by the search for contemporary philosophical anthropology and the problematization of concepts of the subject and understanding against the background of socio-cultural dynamics of the human world. It is conditioned by the findings in the modern professional literature of the need to understand the postmodern transformations of the subject and the concept of understanding inherent in modern society. The purpose of the article is to problematize the question of forming a hermeneutic mode of difference in correlation with the problems of understanding, meaning-generation and transformation of the subject's philosophy in contemporary literary narratives on the example of D. Bart h elm's small prose. The philosophy of difference has been examined in relation to the conceptual transformations of the subject in contemporary philosophical and literary language practices. The study used the methodology of historical and philosophical conceptual analysis, cultural, literary comparative analysis, phenomenological and hermeneutical approaches. The result s of the study is a statement of the formation of hermeneutics of difference as a mode of understanding inherent in contemporary narrative and philosophical and literary discourse. It also substantiates the concept of the probabilistic subject as a modern transformation of classical subjectivity in the hyper-reality of the world of the modern man. The thesis about the genetic relation of hermeneutics of difference with the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics of the twentieth century is substantiated. and the projects of E. Husserl's phenomenology and M. Heidegger's transcendental ontology. The example of small prose by American writer D. Bartelmi illustrates the generation of meaning in the text in the model of hermeneutics of difference. The formation of the probabilistic subject as a mode of understanding and monolithization of fragmented perceived meanings in the decent discourse and plural linguistic practices of post- and goal modernity is considered. Conclusions . The hermeneutics of difference, genetically linked to the postmodern paradigm of the philosophy of difference, provides for fundamentally new forms and methods of understanding discourse, narrative, and literary text. The main feature of hermeneutics of difference is the traductive interpretation of the relation of elements in the conditional semantic whole, which denies any hierarchy, continuity and sequence, and relies on total correlation as a mutual transition. Difference thus emerges as an epistemological instruction and a fundamental cognitive setting for understanding and experiencing decentralized fragmented reality.

Extending Means-end Chain Theory by Integrating a Self-concept Approach and Behavioural Perspective Model

This methodological and concept paper attempts to combine the recently emerged, yet well-established, value-based cognitive model – Means-end Chain (MEC) – with the self-concept approach and the Behavioural Perspective Model (BPM).The paper has three aims: first, to elaborate the MEC theory, the post-modern approach of self-concept and the hermeneutical model based on radical behaviourism, BPM. Second, to discuss the similarities and differences with MEC and, third, to formulate a novel extended MEC metatheory.The theoretical framework is based on a critical overview of scientific books and articles. It includes an examination of the elements to enhance the MEC model with symbolism, dynamics and multi-dimensionality on the micro-level through integration of the self-concept approach. It also investigates the environmental, reinforcing / aversive and experiential aspects of the BPM on the macro level.The results of the exploration pave the way to the new research extended MEC – EMEC – which opens up new opportunities to redesign and re-systemise the interpretation and understanding of consumer behaviour.

Teaching Scripture: moving towards a hermeneutical model for religious education in Australian Catholic Schools

In 2006 the Catholic Education Commission, Victoria, Australia, entered into an agreement with the Centre for Academic Teacher Training of the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, to conduct research which would frame the identity structure of Victorian Catholic schools (Pollefeyt and Bouwens in Int Stud Cathol Educ 2(2):193–211, 2010). As this agreement has now been extended to other dioceses in Australia, there is widespread interest in the project and in how to respond to its findings. Indeed, the finding that a disproportionate number of students are demonstrating strong fundamentalist belief has brought into sharp focus the very way that religious education is taught in Australia. Calls for a new, hermeneutical, model of religious education are loud and persuasive. But while dioceses search for religious education that emphasises dialogue, embraces religious pluralism and promotes active enquiry, this paper contends that they are overlooking a major impediment in the development of post-critical belief; theme or topic-based religious education curriculum programmes. This paper proposes two weaknesses inherent in this design model. First, in reducing Scripture to the role of validating or proving the predetermined theme Scripture is used in a manner that is a priori, an approach that, of itself, invites a literalist reading. Second, as the theme or topic is known by students at the outset of learning any interpretation by them is rendered unnecessary; passages mean what the theme teaches that they mean. These two realities, it will be argued, make theme or topic-based curriculum design incompatible with a hermeneutical approach to religious education. It is to be noted that this paper does not attempt to argue the existence of the practices described. This has been done elsewhere (Carswell in Rymarz and Belmonte (eds.) Religious education in Australian Catholic schools. Exploring the landscape, Garratt, Mulgrave, 2017, Br J Relig Educ 40(3): 288–297, https://doi.org/10.1080/01416200.2018.1493271, 2018). Rather, it offers only a summary of the problems associated with the placement of Scripture in theme-based curricula deliberately framed around Pollefeyt and Bouwens (Identity in dialogue. Assessing and enhancing the Catholic school identity. Research methodology and research results in Catholic schools in Victoria, Lit-Verlag, Hamburg, 2014) own concerns. It is hoped that, in responding to ECSI, dioceses in Australia will consider their use of theme-based religious education. This paper will conclude by outlining a new direction for religious education, one that allows Scripture to speak for itself.

Material Fictions: A Dialogue as Introduction

The co-editors of “Material Fictions” introduce the ECF special issue through a conversation about the interdisciplinary objectives that in spired the collection and the insights about materiality, interpretation, and the critical study of texts and objects that emerged from the collection. Addressing points of overlap as well as tension among the fields of art history, literary studies, and material culture studies, we consider how collaborative attention to materiality complicates hermeneutic models like “surface reading” or “form vs. context” and urges art and literary critical practice towards embodied forms of knowledge. We also discuss the etymological kinship of fictions and manufactured objects; the role of Aristotelian philosophy, thing theory, and other lines of thought across fields; and the role of pleasure in our disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.

Material Fictions: A Dialogue as Introduction

The co-editors of “Material Fictions” introduce the ECF special issue through a conversation about the interdisciplinary objectives that in spired the collection and the insights about materiality, interpretation, and the critical study of texts and objects that emerged from the collection. Addressing points of overlap as well as tension among the fields of art history, literary studies, and material culture studies, we consider how collaborative attention to materiality complicates hermeneutic models like “surface reading” or “form vs. context” and urges art and literary critical practice towards embodied forms of knowledge. We also discuss the etymological kinship of fictions and manufactured objects; the role of Aristotelian philosophy, thing theory, and other lines of thought across fields; and the role of pleasure in our disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.

Critical bibliography practices: integrating the KTA biblical studies in the European theological research context (the second half of the 19th – early 20th ct.)

In this article, the author explores one of the avenues through which the experiences of the European biblical studies were implemented in the Kyiv Theological Academy (КТА) in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. For the first time, the critical bibliographic reviews of biblical research works written by foreign scholars are being examined as a genre. In the comments and reviews made by the KTA professors, we observe a critical analysis of the experiences related to rationalistic and orthodox apologetic trends as represented in foreign biblical studies, as well as a quest for conceptual and methodological allies in support of the Orthodox biblical apologetic perspective. These critical reviews represent a valuable asset indicating that the Kyiv theological academic studies had been incorporated in the global dimension of academic biblical studies. The broad range of subjects addressed in the reviews as well as their regularity and frequency testify to intensive professional communication within the theological academic community. In addition, the texts demonstrate the degree the Kyiv academics perceived the global issues and trends, the responses of scholars to methodological and conceptual challenges, and their perception of various hermeneutical models. The article specifies the stages in which the genre of review evolved from 1860s to early 1900s. From the key structural elements of the entire body of reviews and critical articles, the author distinguishes reviews of the Old Testament and New Testament studies in such thematic areas as isagogics, theology, exegesis, historical criticism, textual criticism, study of biblical languages, geography, archeology, history, chronology, and comparative studies of religion and culture. The subject areas of the reviews and critical articles specifically indicate significant development in the European biblical studies.Article received 22.02.2018

Образ мирового человека в романе Алексея Иванова „Географ глобус пропил"

The article is devoted to a research of archaic models in Alexei Ivanov’s creativity. On the material of the novel entitled Geographer has spent on drink the globe(Geograf globus propil) the images and motifs of rescue, as well as the archaic image of rescue described in Vardan Hayrapetyan’s hermeneutics are revealed. In the center of a research is the main character, another example of an archetype of the Russian literature — the little person. In particular, his uncommon abilities to understand, to decode and interpret are emphasized. The attention is also paid to the hermeneutical model of the communication consisting of three instances: speaking (nature), the listener (who is willfully understanding the pupil) and the interpreter (the teacher) whose efforts supplement the anthropomorphous model of unity — the all-man, the one-man (mirovoj chelovek).

Metoda historyczno-krytyczna i analiza narracyjna w perspektywie założeń hermeneutycznych

The Contemporary philosophical hermeneutics is essential for the exegetes. It provides the ways to resolve some of the problems of today biblical interpretation. The recent hermeneutical debates have revealed the kinds of implicit positivism that characterizes biblical research in formal detachment from faith and theology. Its causes the obsessive preoccupation with methods. There is urgent need of a new model of biblical hermeneutics aiming at the renewal of interaction between Scripture and theology. It should not so much be concerned with amassing ‘theoretical’ knowledge, as rather enhance a sort of practical knowledge and truth that shapes our praxis by the way of appropriation of a living Word of God.

Contemporary Catholic Studies in a Secular University: Friend or Foe?

Through the introduction of a new hermeneutical model of communication in RE, this article intends to explore an innovative approach to developing Christian identity in a secular university. The author holds a joint lectureship in religious education, catechesis and pastoral theological education. Religious education and catechesis are concerned with all aspects of the teaching of religion in schools, within the parish and any other pastoral setting. pastoral theological education is concerned with the place of learning within religious communities and the larger society. This distinction has resulted in this research proceeding along two parallel routes: the institutional educational environment, religious communities and society as a background influencing our value change as well as the way we do RE in schools. The main concern of the author is to develop practical ways of enhancing the Catholic religious identity and theological literacy of students in the state secondary schools and universities in the UK, on the basis of contemporary theological anthropology and educational theoretical foundations. This article is an investigation into a new understanding of the development of Catholic identity and new models of RE used in a contemporary secular university.

A Preliminary Study on Lee Hwang's Juyeok-seokui’s Translational Characteristics: Applying Methodology Model of Translational Hermeneutics of Commentaries on Confucian Classics in Joseon Dynasty

본 연구는 한국의 특성에 맞는 유가경전관련 주석 연구를 효과적으로 진행하기 위해 경전 주석 번역해석학이란 연구방법론의 모델을 상정하고, 이를 적용해 한국 유가경전 주석 가운데 중요한 위상을 지닌, 이황의 『경서석의』중 『주역석의』에 접근할 때 텍스트의 특징과 의의가 보다 효과적으로 구현될 수 있음을 제시하는 데 주요 목적이 있다. 『주역석의』에 대해서는 저술 성격 및 판본 상황과 번역해석학적 특징을 중심으로 고찰하였 다. 저술 성격에 대해서는 “진행형의 열려 있는 논의 공간”으로 규정하고, ‘판본’ 면에서는『주역석의』 목판본 간의 차이를 비교하여 간인 과정에서 체제·판각 오류 및 ‘구 석의’ 인용을 중심으로 한 수정 작업이 있었음을 일부 소개하였다. 번역해석학의 각도에서는, 기존 석의의 검토 양상, 석의자의 인식을 읽어내려는 면모 및 다중해석 공간에 주목하였다. 본 연구는 조선시대 유가경전주석의 번역해석에 담긴 섬세한 고민과 사고들을 번역해석 학의 각도에서 심층적으로 읽어내기 위한 연구의 일환이다. 본 연구를 보다 심화시켜 나아간다면 이황뿐 아니라 조선시대 유가경전주석 번역해석사의 발전 맥락을 체계적으로 고찰해 나아가는 데 일정한 참고가 될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.This study aims to plot a suitable methodology model of translational hermeneutics of commentaries on Confucian Classics from Joseon dynasty and to propose that the characteristics and values of Juyeok-seokui (a part of Gyungseo-seokui), which have particular and exalted status amongst Korean traditional commentaries on Confucian Classics in Joseon dynasty can be implemented more effectively by applying this model. In specific analyzation of Juyeok-seokui, we mainly focus on its writing character, its different text versions, and its translational hermeneutics’ hallmarks. With regards to its written character, we prescribed Juyeok-seokui’s compilation course as an ongoing and open discussion space. we were also able to demonstrate that there are several revisions evident in the course of reprinting Juyeok-seokui texts in the way of shaving off, carving up, or reorganizing the certain part of letters on the previous wood-block in order to modify errors. From the translational hermeneutics’ point of view, we focus on the compiler’s reviewing tendency to pre-interpreters’ translations, and the compiler’s flow of consciousness to grasp the intention of the pre-interpreters by following the insignificant clues in the pre-seokui, and “multiple interpretation spaces”. This research is a part of the study aiming at investigating the delicacy of translational hermeneutic thoughts reflected on Confucian Classics’ commentaries in Joseon dynasty. By further deepening this study, we expect to review not only the context of Lee Hwang’s Gyungseo-seokui as a whole, but also the history of the translational hermeneutics of Confucian Classics’ commentaries in the Joseon dynasty in the near future.

해석학의 상호텍스트성의 모델로서 정서적 역학 연구

해석학의 상호텍스트성의 모델로서 정서적 역학 연구

Producing a "Relevant" Translation: A Derridean Approach to Annie Ernaux's L'Evénement

This article proposes an examination of the English rendering of Annie Ernaux's text L'Evénement, translated by Tanya Leslie as Happening. I seek not to criticize Leslie's translation, but instead endeavor to offer an alternate, hermeneutic model of translation—that is, one that models itself on the notion of translations as variable according to a translator's interpretant. To be sure, the emphasis in the re-translated pages I proffer throughout my article is not on the notion of a single, indeed impossible, perfect translation, nor on the dissolution of the standard dialectic pitting the translation against the source. Rather, the suggested translations of words in what I translate as The Events stress the notion of the translator-scholar whose move to translate stems from a desire for the target-language version of a source text to achieve literary relevance in the Derridean sense of elevating the signifier to its meaning or value while guarding the signified of the source. While working locally on L'Evénement, my ultimate goal is to offer relevant translations—in the Derridean sense—of portions of Ernaux's text in an effort to suggest a way forward for literary translation more generally.

Conceptual Blending, the Second Naïveté, and the Emergence of New Meanings

Abstract The field of cognitive linguistics has generated a powerful set of theoretical tools for analyzing the ways in which we understand, communicate, and create concepts. In the conceptual integration theory of Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, the cognitive process known as double-scope blending provides a highdefinition model for the phenomenological hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. In particular, Ricoeur’s notion of developing a second naivete through the blending of ancient and contemporary worlds of meanings can be viewed as the double-scope integration of concepts across disparate conceptual frames. This re-modeling of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics gives it a new level of clarity and precision in cognitive scientific terms, which in turn may be utilized in service of theological and other forms of discourse. Conceptual integration theory also sheds light on other Ricoeur-inspired hermeneutical models and makes a case for the revelatory character of scripture through the meaning-making process of interpretation. The interpretation of the image of God concept in an evolutionary worldview serves as a heuristic example of second naivete as double-scope blending.