RT Article
T1 Translating Religious Texts
JF Sophia
VO 51
IS 4
SP 423
OP 448
A1 Charlesworth, Max
LA English
PB Springer Netherlands
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785592270
AB Certain philosophical problems occur in biblical interpretations where concepts that belong to the scriptural world – full of references to demonic forces and miraculous events including raisings from the dead – have to be translated into meaningful concepts in our twenty-first-century western world. A crucial issue that arises is that any interpretation of a text can, at best, be probable and can never be absolutely final and certain. This in turn has implications for the act of faith that any believer makes. Church traditions, the teachings of the Church on matters of faith and morals, and papal dictates are also subject to interpretation and are equally problematic. Attempts by Kant and others to avoid these difficulties by arguing that biblical texts are not descriptive but quasi-performative are also considered and rejected.
K1 Descriptive and Performative Texts
K1 The Act of Faith
K1 Probability
K1 Translation
K1 Interpretation
DO 10.1007/s11841-012-0337-x