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Document Details : Title: Een ont-werp van een paulinische ethiek van de toekomst Subtitle: Een analyse van 2 Korinthiërs 5,14-15 in het licht van de normativiteit van de toekomst Author(s): BIERINGER, Reimund Journal: Tijdschrift voor Theologie Volume: 60 Issue: 3 Date: 2020 Pages: 252-270 DOI: 10.2143/TVT.60.3.3288626 Abstract : This article provides a synthesis of the future-oriented Biblical hermeneutics which the author developed in the past twenty years (A). Next, 2 Cor 5,14-15 is studied in light of this normativity of the future approach (B). In the first subsection of part A, the successes and limitations of the historical-critical study of the Bible are briefly evoked. In this section a number of gaps which are typical for historical-critical study are referred to, such as the gap between the past and the present, between the specialized and the ordinary reader, between the world of the author and the text itself. The rise of literary criticism in Biblical studies and the concentration on the world of the text are briefly alluded to. In the second subsection of part A the future-oriented hermeneutics of the author is succinctly presented. This approach understands texts as literary icons which can facilitate the readers’ encounter with divine mystery and which can bring about their transformation into people who are willing to participate in the building of a better world according to the future vision of the text. An important role of the interpretation is seen in the search for the implicit horizon of a vision of the future in the text. In part B an exegetical analysis of 2 Cor 5,14-15 in dialogue with recent exegesis is developed which allows itself to be guided by a focus on the implicit future horizon of the text. In the first subsection the four clauses of 2 Cor 5,14 are successively analysed. ‘One died for all’ (5,14c) is interpreted in an all-inclusive sense as a statement on universality, equality and the value of all people. In the second subsection the three clauses of 2 Cor 5,15 are interpreted with a special focus on the reciprocity of benefit which takes Christ’s self-gift in his death and resurrection as an invitation for human persons to overcome selfishness and live for Christ and all who belong to him. The third subsection adds Biblical-theological considerations of a future-oriented reading of 2 Cor 5,14-15. The ethics of the future is presented as an ‘other-regarding ethic’ (Horrell) which can hardly stop at the boundaries of the human community. |
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