Theology as Translation

Abstract

“Not only do translation and interpretation belong together; they in turn share with language a basic scope. For language itself is the bringing to expression, the exposition, of an understanding. Language is already the beginning of the hermeneutical process. Thus one catches sight of the basic interrelatedness of the problem of the word of God and that of theological hermeneutic. In the broader sense, hermeneutic embraces the movement from the original speaking of God's word, to which the Bible refers, through its address to me in such a way that it speaks to me. Hence hermeneutic, far from being a minor subdivision in one department of theology, has come to be recognized as the overarching category that unites the various theological disciplines and makes them a whole. It is in this sense that theology and translation are one in hermeneutic.”