Belief and Interpretation: Meditations on Pelikan's "Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution"

Is belief a prerequisite of interpretation? Can we interpret a document if we do not believe that it has something to say to us, if we do not anticipate that we can learn from the text? Jaroslav Pelikan's assessment of the similarities and differences in constitutional and Biblical hermeneutics...

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Main Author: Mootz, Francis J., III 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2006
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 385-399
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