Wheaton Theology Conference<\/a>. I mean, past presenters have been giants in the field of theology, and I\u2019m merely a Ph.D. student who will (someday) write a dissertation and get the damn degree. Even the folks doing the seminars have twice as many letters after their names as I do. I am clearly out of my league.<\/p>\nBut, I found a loophole in one of the emails from the conference coordinators. They ask that our presentations be relevant to theologians, pastors, and college students! So, clearly, I\u2019m the guy to speak to the lattermost crowd.<\/p>\n
But seriously, I\u2019m deeply honored and very much looking forward to it. I\u2019m not much of one to present a \u201cpaper\u201d at an event like this, but I did follow the rules enough to turn in an abstract today. Here it is:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhence Hermeneutic Authority?\u201d
Tony Jones, National Coordinator of Emergent Village<\/p>\n
Abstract<\/p>\n
Tipp O\u2019Neill famously quipped that \u201cAll politics are local.\u201d Maybe so, but the postmodernists have argued that all hermeneutics are local<\/i>. It is our local communities that shape how we see the world, and\u2014as Christians\u2014our ecclesial communities that shape how we interact with the texts of scripture. Stanley Fish calls them \u201cauthoritative interpretative communities;\u201d we call them \u201cchurch.\u201d But in what way does the grand tradition of church history interact with our local iterations of the faith? Does Chalcedon trump Minneapolis? The emerging church movement offers some insight into how coming generations will navigate this relationship between old and new, for in an age of micronarratives, Vincent of Lerins\u2019s exhortation that orthodoxy must \u201chold fast to what has been believed everywhere, always, and by all\u201d rings somewhat hollow. Or, maybe, orthodoxy has always been fluid, dynamic, open source\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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