Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context 1st Edition by Oral Thomas ISBN 1845536568 978-1845536565
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ISBN 10: 1845536568
ISBN 13: 978-1845536565
Author: Oral Thomas
The Bible is of central importance within Caribbean life but is rarely used as an agent for social change. Caribbean biblical hermeneutics focus more on the meaning of biblical texts for today and less on the context in which the texts themselves were written. ‘Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context’ offers a biblical hermeneutic that acknowledges the importance of the socio-ideological interests, theological agendas, and social practices that produced the biblical texts, as well as the socio-cultural context of the contemporary reader. The book examines the social context of post-independence Caribbean and outlines the difficulties of biblical interpretation within Christian communities that descend from a history of slavery. Current hermeneutical practices in the Caribbean are critiqued and a biblical resistant reading offered that enables the Bible to be used as a cultural weapon of resistance.
Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context 1st Table of contents:
1 Tracking Biblical Hermeneutical Practices within the Caribbean
Introduction
Colonial Era: 1492–1838
Complicity and duplicity of the Church
Biblical interpretive approaches
Outcome: Social control and stability versus social reconstruction
Eisegetics and exegetics
Post-“Emancipation” Era: 1840–1959
Biblical interpretive approaches
Intercultural Hermeneutics
Outcome: quest for self-identity and self-determination
Eisegetics and exegetics
Post-“Independence” Era: 1959 onwards
Outcome: Economic dependency versus human liberation and social transformation
Conclusion
2 Analysing biblical hermeneutical practices within the Caribbean
Introduction
Biblical hermeneutical practices “on the ground”
Possible reasons for reading strategies
Reflective summary
Reading strategies from Caribbean social history
Conclusion
3 Putting Philemon in its place
Introduction
Mode of production
Social relations to production
Manumission
Peculium
Formation of social class structure
Pauline theopolitics and slavery
Socio-historic environment of Philemon
Eisegetics and exegetics
Conclusion
4 “Readings” of Philemon
Introduction
The era of slavery
Exegetics and eisegetics
The contemporary era
Liberationist Hermeneutics
Postcolonial Type
Eisegetics and exegetics
Conclusion
5 Towards a biblical resistant hermeneutic within a Caribbean context
Introduction
Component parts of a biblical resistant hermeneutic
Cultural-literacy consciousness
Praxis of resistance
Text as cultural construction
A biblical resistant reading of Philemon
Brothers or “slaves” of Caribbean “masters”
Conclusion
6 Implications of a biblical resistant hermeneutic within a Caribbean context
Introduction
Defining the Bible
“Reading” the Bible
Doing theology from non-traditional sites
Understanding the ground and structure of Caribbean religions
Structuring spirituality against resistance
Cultural expressions as hermeneutical practices of resistance
Cricket as Hermeneutical Practice of Resistance
Conclusion
7 Conclusion
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