As cultural circumstances become increasingly digital, the importance of theoretical frameworks guiding calculated considerations authorial intention and reader response is being reaffirmed. The framework proposed in this article that hermeneutics: study understanding, processes meaning-making. Although explicit application hermeneutics has fallen out fashion, field especially valuable for crit...

The purpose of this article is to provide insight into the philosophy and practice Applied Philosophical Hermeneutics as a unique approach for research in health sciences. While there are other approaches grounded hermeneutics, focuses on Gadamer’s modern philosophical hermeneutics. During my 18 years hermeneutic researcher, graduate students I have engaged with people wide variety experiences ...

The inherent complexity of information systems development presents significant impediments to the achievement of shared meaning among the members of a development team. In addition to the technical requirements of systems development, its intensely social nature challenges project teams to unite around a collective understanding of the processes and objectives that they pursue. How then do sof...

Graeme Goldsworthy is a minister of the Anglican Church of Australia and has served in churches in Sydney and Brisbane. He lectured at Moore Theological College, Sydney, in Old Testament, Biblical Theology, and Hermeneutics. Now retired, he continues as a visiting lecturer at Moore College to teach a four th-year B.D. course in Evangelical Hermeneutics. He is the author of several books, includ...

Practical theology describes a context, interprets what has been discovered, brings in Christian norms, and constructs models of Christian practice. It is a process that involves epistemology and hermeneutics. For practical theology to be transformative, a postfoundational theological framework that allows interdisciplinary work and interpretation of experience in a given context is essential. ...

The rationale for Jesus’ use of David’s story in Matt 12:3-4 has attracted varied views biblical scholarship. text records example the first Sabbath conflict Matthew’s Gospel. This article attempted to sample prominent scholarly on 12:3-4. adopted a descriptive and evaluative approach contemporary scholars example, 12:3-4, conflict. aims were describe evaluate why Jesus used Matthew qualitative...