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exploitation prevalent in South America in the 1960s <strong>and</strong> 1970s. The h<strong>is</strong><strong>to</strong>ry ofthat period <strong>is</strong> speckled with coups, revolutions, insurrections <strong>and</strong> counterrevolutions.If, as the quotation from Dorr (1992) above shows, Gutierrez (<strong>and</strong> others, e.g Boff, 1981;Segundo, 1982) could prompt the Pope <strong>to</strong> accommodate a hither<strong>to</strong> anathema creed, <strong>and</strong> thus <strong>to</strong>arrive synthetically at a more enriched interpretation, it would appear <strong>to</strong> follow that theimbuement of empirical experiences with insights from the most eclectic range of externalsources <strong>will</strong> make the findings of th<strong>is</strong> study powerful <strong>and</strong> productive potentially."Here <strong>is</strong> a preliminary definition of the hermeneutic circle: it <strong>is</strong> the continuing change inour interpretation of the Bible which <strong>is</strong> dictated <strong>by</strong> the continuing changes in our presentdayreality, both individual <strong>and</strong> societal. 'Hermeneutic' means 'having <strong>to</strong> do withinterpretation'. And the circular nature of th<strong>is</strong> interpretation stems from the fact that eachnew reality obliges us <strong>to</strong> interpret the word of God afresh, <strong>to</strong> change reality accordingly,<strong>and</strong> then <strong>to</strong> go back <strong>and</strong> reinterpret the word of God again, <strong>and</strong> so on." (Segundo, 1982 p.8)So scripture <strong>is</strong> interpreted in the light of experience <strong>and</strong> experience <strong>is</strong> interpreted in the light ofscripture. Th<strong>is</strong> dynamic <strong>and</strong> dialogic <strong>to</strong>'ing <strong>and</strong> fro'ing <strong>is</strong> redolent of the iterative processes ofsoftware development (see Naugh<strong>to</strong>n, 2000 p. 261 or Friedman, 2006 p. 96) <strong>and</strong>, in complexitytheory, the feedback loops that are essential for relevant organ<strong>is</strong>ational development (see Stacey,1994 or McMaster, 1996). <strong>It</strong> <strong>is</strong> thus appropriate for th<strong>is</strong> study which has been a continualreflexive dialogic methodologically, as I worked <strong>to</strong> find a rationale for warranting my truebeliefs.<strong>It</strong> <strong>is</strong> for th<strong>is</strong> reason that the next table sets out a rev<strong>is</strong>ed, adapted <strong>and</strong> enriched schema <strong>to</strong> beapplied <strong>to</strong> the five illustrative moments that follow.Table 3: A key <strong>to</strong> underst<strong>and</strong>ing my hermeneuticComponent Exemplar My intended research activityContextIn th<strong>is</strong> component of the hermeneutic circle, theparticipants describe or narrate theirexperience. As was seen in section 3.1.4, theuse of narrative has become an establ<strong>is</strong>hedFor each illustrative moment, I intend<strong>to</strong> write a narrative account which <strong>will</strong>provide details of what happened butwhich teases out those salient details159Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thes<strong>is</strong> (Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2012)

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