Papers by Dave Smit
Conference Presentations by Dave Smit
In my PhD I am using a socio-rhetorical interpretive strategy (SRI) to investigate Luke’s reconfi... more In my PhD I am using a socio-rhetorical interpretive strategy (SRI) to investigate Luke’s reconfiguration of messiahship in Luke 1-3. I argue that chapters 1-3 form a rhetorical discourse, written with the intention of informing and changing the theological convictions and religious loyalties of his audience. I plan to report on the current phase of my project i.e. the analysis of inner and intertexture of key passages. The analysis of social and cultural rhetoric in this early phase of my project is central to the enterprise of SRI and prepares the way for the analysis of social-cultural texture within the world of the text, and the analysis of its ideological and sacred textures. One of the key values of SRI lays in its purposeful dialogical approach, which has important value as a tool for social, political, ideological and theological interpretation in our conflicted world. Instead of making an interpretive move and then trying to defend it against criticism, SRI brings together different voices as it seeks to understand how belief systems have been reconfigured. Instead of being threatened by dissenting voices, it presents an opportunity to celebrate the rich variety of approaches and meanings in a process of interpretative dialogue.
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Papers by Dave Smit
Conference Presentations by Dave Smit