Adventures in Biblical Reader-Response Criticism part 3 – From theory to practice
The second chapter (“Two Experiments”) illustrates the reality of polyvalence and the influence of social location, reading strategy, empathy, and conceptions of meaning, by way of two experiments which Powell carried out. For each experiment 100 participants were chosen, 50 clergy and 50 laity (one of each from each church), each were presented with a [...]
Ben Meyer on Bernard Lonergan’s Transcendental Method
Nothing characterizes transcendenal method so much as its irreducibility to ‘method’ as Gadamer uses the term, namely, to signify technical efforts devised to secure a closed circuit of control. Transcendental method refers primarily to the spontaneous self-assembling structure of human intentionality; secondarily, to the detailed objectification of this structure. In the primary sense, then, this ‘method,’ so far from being in [...]
What is ‘Method’?
‘Method’ is of fundamental importance when it comes to any subject of inquiry including the Bible and Theology. While the terms ‘method’ and ‘methodology’ may sound daunting, they simply concern how we go about doing something and why we go about doing it in a particular way. A method is a procedure, a technique, a [...]
