Theodicy Soteriology, Hermeneutics

HERMENEUTICS : M. M. NINAN
interaction with others. Hence we can know God (for that matter anything else) only through
God's interaction through history, humans and cosmos.
God can only be known personally in our own experiential situation. This is because God is a
person. A person can be known only by a person. There is no knowledge beyond this.
All revelations have to be interpreted in its context.
All human understanding of the external world and of other worlds comes through the five
senses (eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue) and the internal senses (mind and soul). All information
are obtained through these channels which are the elements of communication. If God wants
to communicate he uses these means.
The Process can be charted as follows:
God ==== Means of Communications (God has to use some form of communication which
consists of symbols which are given meanings such as words, symbols, parables etc.)
===== These are received by individuals and they reinterpret within the context and is
understood contextually==== Hermeneutics: From the way God acts we can deduce the
plan, purposes and nature of God. ====== core values are thus deduced from these infinite
number of individual and collective cases.
Constraints of communications
Means of communication necessarily involves noises in the background and problems with
the medium of transmission, its state, temper, temperature, slants, prejudices etc.
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