Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty |
2014
Abstract
Hermeneutics of experience means interpretation and discussion about human experience and it is based on conditions that each human experience is individual and that one is not different or divided from their own experience. It is argued that this kind of experience is constitutive for the final meaning.
Having the experience with someone or something is closely related to the situation where this process occurs, because it does not only influence the process of understanding, but it is also constitutive for it. We follow a development of this idea from Descartes, through Schleiermacher to Gadamer.
Its theological use will be illustrated on the examples of works of E. Schillebeeckx a F.
Schüssler Fiorenza.