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Savrey, V. Ya.
Key Problems of Interpreting Parables
of the New Testament
// Politics and Society.
2014. № 9.
P. 1118-1132.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=54284
Savrey, V. Ya. Key Problems of Interpreting Parables
of the New Testament
Abstract:
The article is devoted to the two main problems of hermeneutics of the Evangelic parable. The fi rst problem
relates to the question whether it is actually admissible to have multiple interpretations of parables and to make
particular moral and didactic conclusions based on the narrative. From this point of view, parable can be viewed
as a multi-level structure including different aspects of symbolically refl ected reality which in its hermeneutic interpretation
may have many meanings at the same time: literal or historical-grammatical meaning, spiritual or moralesthetical
meaning or allegoric (symbolic-mystical), tropological and anagogic meanings. In late ancient and patristic
periods in history Church was chosen as a universal system of interpreting parables based on a great number
of hermeneutic and exegetic methods. Origen of Alexandria and Saint Augustine founded the Biblical hermeneutics
which, as Paul Ricoeur said, was the fundament of modern philosophical hermeneutics. Patristic principles of interpreting
Evangelic parables were almost completely denied at the epoch of Reformation which had confessional
grounds. Modern hermeneutics is based on the assumption that each sign has many meanings and therefore recognizes
the multiple meanings of parables. The second problem discussed by the author relates to the question whether
the total interpretation of all elements of parables is reasonable. The author has used the following research
methods: textual analysis, historical-cultural, historical-typological, comparative-historical, semiotic, philosophical
and theological-patristic analysis. The author of the article also touches upon the history of the development of theoretical grounds for interpreting Evangelic parables at different ages: patristic period, the Reformation, liberal
Protestantism and others up to the time when the semiotic model was created. The author also studies the grounds of
the modern variety of different concepts and analyzes whether these are applicable to particular hermeneutic tasks.
Keywords:
Parable, meaning, interpretation, New Testament, Christianity, hermeneutics, exegetics, new spiritual reality, interpretation of parables.
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