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2010 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/20/2010
Meeting Ends11/23/2010

Call for Papers Opens: 12/15/2009
Call for Papers Closes: 3/1/2010

Requirements for Participation

GOCN Forum on Missional Hermeneutics


Program Unit Type: Affiliate
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Gospel and Our Culture Network Forum on Missional Hermeneutics extends a call for papers to be presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta, November 21-24, 2009. The Forum explores the intersections of missiology, ecclesiology, and biblical interpretation, focusing on hermeneutical issues that arise in view of the Church’s missional character. In particular, presenters and participants at the Forum explore how faithful interpretation of Scripture needs to pay attention to a number of interlocking realities in the text: (1) the ways in which the biblical text renders the identity of the missio Dei, the God who is engaged in mission to the whole creation; (2) the ways in which the biblical text is shaped for the purpose of forming a people of God who are called to participate in God’s mission to the creation; (3) the ways in which the biblical text evokes and challenges a missionally located community's interpretive readings and questions; and (4) the ways in which the biblical text relates the received tradition to a particular context in light of the good news of the reign of God in Jesus Christ. The theme for the session this year is “Exile, Identity, and Mission: Interpreting Biblical Texts.” Proposals for papers are invited (in the form of one-page abstracts) which engage a specific text or texts in relation to this theme—in view of the hermeneutical framework identified above—and which test the extent to which such a missional approach to the biblical text illumines and opens the text to faithful understanding and ecclesial practice. For further information, please contact Michael Barram, Saint Mary's College of California (mbarram@stmarys-ca.edu). For to access some of the papers presented in previous sessions of the Forum, go to http://gocn.org

Program Unit Chairs

Michael Barram

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