A relation between hermeneutics of suspicion and an apophatic way
Project goals
This project analyses the possibility of employing negative methods in exegesis. As these methods were already used in Greek Patristic literature, especially in Gregory of Nyssa, it starts with an examination of his concept of an apophatic way, which isthen compared to Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion. Gregory's apophatism grows out of a monastic tradition and concentrates on the need to understand all that God is not, by excluding our own concepts and schemes, thus leading to the need of radical personal purification and conversion, so that the human being is made ready to meet the personal and living God. Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion, in contrast, starts with the thinkers who criticized Christianity for the ideological shortcuts theysaw in it, and it concentrates on the positive role of doubt for a development of a human freedom. The project concentrates on Ricoeur's understanding of a hermeneutics of suspicion as a mediator between the first and the second naivet?. It offers a
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Provider
Czech Science Foundation
Programme
Post-graduate (doctorate) grants
Call for proposals
Postdoktorandské granty 2 (SGA02002GA-PD)
Main participants
Univerzita Karlova / Evangelická teologická fakulta
Contest type
VS - Public tender
Contract ID
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Project name in Czech
Vztah mezi hermeneutikou podezýenˇ a apofatickou cestou
Annotation in Czech
Tento projekt je zkoum mo§nosti vyu§itˇ negativnˇho pýˇstupu v exegezi, kterě se v ýeck? patristick? literatuýe, zejm?na u üehoýe z Nyssy, objevuje jako apofatick cesta a u Paula Ricoeura v podobŘ hermeneutiky podezýenˇ. Zatˇmco üehoýe apofatismus vych zi z mniçsk? tradice a soustýedˇ se na potýebu porozumŘt tomu, co vçechno B?h nenˇ, a na z kladŘ vylouźenˇ vçech pojm? a sch?mat doch zˇ k potýebŘ radik lnˇ osobnˇ oźisty a obr cenˇ, aby se źlovŘk mohl setkat s osobnˇm a §ivěm Bohem, Ricoeurova hermeneutika podezýenˇ vych zˇ z myslitel?, kteýˇ kýesśanstvˇ kritizovali pro ideologick? zkratky, kter? v nŘm vidŘli, a soustýedˇ se na pozitivnˇ roli pochybnosti pro rozvoj svobody źlvŘka. Věchodiskem je Ricoeurovo ch p nˇ hermeneutiky podezýenˇ jako prostýedkovatelky mezi prvnˇ a druhou naivitou. Bude se zaběvat podrobnŘjçˇ analězou toho, co Ricoeur hermeneutikou podezýenˇ myslˇ, jak se vztahuje k DerridovŘ dekonstrukci a jakou roli hermeneutika podezýenˇ hraje pro exegezi. Tento projekt bude
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Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Jan 1, 2001
Realization period - end
Jan 1, 2002
Project status
U - Finished project
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Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP/2003/GA0/GA03GP/U/N/7:4
Data delivery date
Jun 15, 2009
Finance
Total approved costs
140 thou. CZK
Public financial support
140 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK
Basic information
Recognised costs
140 CZK thou.
Public support
140 CZK thou.
100%
Provider
Czech Science Foundation
CEP
AA - Philosophy and religion
Solution period
01. 01. 2001 - 01. 01. 2002