European Protestantism and the Orthodox tradition of mastering the Bible: the view of the Kiev Theological Academy professors of the ХІХ - early XX centuries
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2018
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Golovashchenko, Sergii
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Abstract
The article examines the need
for Sola Scriptura at the first stage of the
reformation movement as the main tool for
solving epistemological problems in order to
find a reliable source of knowledge of God,
bypassing the mediating role of the Catholic
Church. Then the reformers tried to apply
this principle to the practice, they faced the
hermeneutical difficulties and the article shows
the ways how they are solving these problems.
Author demonstrated how the representatives of
the Magisterial Reformation (the Lutheranism,
Calvinism and others) limited hermeneutical
highhandedness with the introduction of
catechisms and confessions of faith, and
representatives of the Radical Reformation
(Anabaptists, Mennonites, etc.) mainly used
the principle of congregational hermeneutics
and hermeneutics of obedience.
In the Eastern European context, the idea
of Sola Scriptura appeared several centuries
later and was widely spread in the movements of religious dissidence, and later in various
groups of evangelical Christianity. The use of
the Sola Scriptura’ principle in these groups
for a long time was based on the “common
sense” approach, preserving the Anabaptist
hermeneutic trajectory of naive realism,
obedience and congregational control. At the
early 90’s of the XX century, after the arrival
in this part of the world of the historicalcritical approach, which gained popularity
in evangelical schools, the principle of Sola
Scriptura became more a slogan than a real
program of actions. The article raises questions
about the search for new hermeneutical
strategy of biblical interpretation, which returns
the researcher directly to the text, rather than to
historical and cultural reconstructions.
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Bible, biblical exegesis, biblical history, biblical criticism, the translations of the Bible, Reformation, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Kiev Theological Academy, article
Citation
Golovashchenko S. European Protestantism and the Orthodox tradition of mastering the Bible: the view of the Kiev Theological Academy professors of the ХІХ - early XX centuries / Sergii Golovashchenko // Theological Reflections: Euro-Asian Journal of Theology. - 2018. - No. 20. - P. 37-60.