Contributions of Lutheran Hermeneutics to a Gravitational Theology

Abstract

Hermeneutical reflection always takes place around a text. For Christians, a legitimate concern is in how to interpret the texts of the Holy Scriptures. What criteria, positions, interpretation keys? In this case, the starting point will always be decisive for the arrival! From the beginning of Christendom there were different emphases on interpretation. Martin Luther has gradually broken with the medieval way of interpreting the Scriptures, but in addition, inserts with greater emphasis a christological reading of them and of all reality. In this sense, the purpose of this article is to raise some problems around the theological hermeneutical task and to perceive the contribution of the Christological hermeneutics, which places Christ in the center, beginning and end, for the interpretation of Scripture and of all reality. For this, we will use texts of Luther, as well as reflections already made on this subject by other theologians. Christ is the gravitational center, necessary for every theological enterprise. With this, one automatically embarks on a critique of the contextual theology which, from the anthropological drift of left-wing Helegianism, floats around the human being himself. Intentionally the present study is introductory; aims to be simple and easy to understand. And so it is to expand its range of use, since much of the “academicês” seems more like a wall with barbed arrays that prevents a large number of people from having access to knowledge. For further study read the works referenced along text.