BIBLICAL CONCEPTS THROUGH THE LENS OF A CONTEMPORARY ETHNIC CULTURE/Mona P. Bias

Mona P. Bias 

撮要

本文作者就價值觀、表達形式、行動來檢視某特殊當代民族文化,在融和這文化所選取的聖經概念時所造成的影響,而該文化已經存在所選取的聖經概念的平行例子。當聖經真理與文化出現對抗,該民族在詮釋聖經真理時,究竟思考和考慮甚麼?作者就此探索,進而辨別出該民族詮釋聖經真理所面對的挑戰,並且提出獻議,讓有關民族濾析某段聖經經文後,向當代聽眾陳述結果,這些結果即或與經文原初聽眾所領受不盡相同,但也很接近。

 

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the influence of a specific contemporary ethnic culture on its values, expressions, and actions as it weaves into its own culture select biblical concepts that already have parallels in it. It probes into the thoughts and considerations of ethnic interpreters when biblical truth confronts their culture; identifies some of their challenges; and presents proposals as they aim to distill the message of a biblical text and present it to a contemporary audience with similar if not the same effect as it did the original recipients.

原載於《教牧期刊》第27期及《建道學刊》第34期合刊(2010年7月),頁165-216。