From Rioeur’s Biblical Hermeneutics to Hermeneutics of the Body

Paul Ricoeur je svojom fenomenološkom hermeneutikom izvršio značajan utjecaj na biblijsku egzegezu. U radu se stoga prvo analizira njegova studija Biblical Hermeneutics (1975.) u kojoj su egzemplificirane osnovne točke Ricoeurove hermeneutike i njezine primjene na biblijske tekstove. Iako se drži da je takva hermeneutika važan korektiv tzv. strukturalističke ideologije za koju autonomija teksta podrazumijeva potpuno dokidanje referencijalne dimenzije jezika, u članku se ističe da ona nije dostatna i da zanemaruje inkarnacijsku logiku. Stoga se sugerira da biblijska hermeneutika treba ne samo pisani tekst vratiti diskursu nego uputiti u Tijelo, koje nije puka interpretativna zajednica, već događanje »novog stvaranja«. Bivanjem u Tijelu »rađa« se jedna nova – tjelesna hermeneutika.With his phenomenological hermeneutics, Paul Ricoeur had an important influence on Biblical exegesis. The article, therefore, first, analyses his study, Biblical Hermeneutics (1975), which exemplifies the main points of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and its application to Biblical texts. Although it is generally considered that this kind of hermeneutics is an important corrective to the so-called structuralist ideology for which the autonomy of a text presupposes a complete termination of the referential dimension of language, the article points out that phenomenological hermeneutics is not sufficient and that it ignores the incarnational logic. Consequently, it suggests that Biblical hermeneutics needs to not only return the written text to discourse but also to point towards the Body, which is not a mere interpretative community but an event of the »new creation«. By being in the Body, a new hermeneutics of the body is being »born«