Richard Simon : un pionnier sur les sentiers de la tradition

Ska, Jean-Louis

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“…10 Simon's biblical method was thorough. 11 Simon maintained that several points needed to be followed in order to come to a proper understanding of the OT: (1) a good Hebrew text must be established (HCVT, 3.1, 543-545); 12 (2) the Scriptures must be read critically as other books (HCVT, 3.1, 545); 13 (3) the texts, including the variants in the diverse manuscript tradition being translated marginally, must be translated (HCVT, 3.1, 545); (4) finally, and perhaps most significantly, Simon provided a sort of Forschungsgeschichte (history of research), showing how earlier biblical interpreters dealt with the many historical problems in Scripture (HCVT, 3.5-24), encouraging future biblical exegetes to follow the same path. Within this and prior sections, Simon himself basically followed the specific critical hermeneutic Spinoza articulated in the seventh chapter of his Tractatus theologico-politicus (TTP), but multiplying the problems encountered in such an investigation, far more thoroughly than Spinoza had.…”

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Faith, Reason and History in Early Modern Catholic Biblical Interpretation : Fr. Richard Simon and St. Thomas More

Morrow¹

2015

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This article contrasts St. Thomas More's theoretical work on the role of faith and history in biblical exegesis with that of Fr. Richard Simon. I argue that, although Simon's work appears to be a critique of his more skeptical contemporaries like Hobbes and Spinoza, in reality he is carrying their work forward. I argue that More's union of faith and reason, theology and history, is more promising than Simon's for Catholic theological biblical exegesis.

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Section: History Criticism and Theology: Richard Simon Father Of Histmentioning

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Faith, Reason and History in Early Modern Catholic Biblical Interpretation : Fr. Richard Simon and St. Thomas More

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Richard Simon, Biblical Criticism and Voltaire

Starczewski

2022

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French Enlightenment philosophe Voltaire’s ambivalence vis-à-vis the biblical text is well documented. On the one hand he highlights irregularities and contradictions in Scripture to undermine the clergy’s authority and legitimacy. On the other, he clearly was fond of reading it and the sheer volume of his work devoted to it confirms that he was certainly not indifferent to its content. This article shows how Voltaire’s use of different biblical scholars, particularly the seventeenth-century French biblical critic Richard Simon, informed his understanding of Scripture and how it manifested in his works, both those of a satirical and of a serious tone. This analysis problematizes the role of religion and of biblical criticism in French seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature. If Richard Simon’s method was not always welcomed during his lifetime, his main goal was to pursue truth. Voltaire, however, used the tools of Simon to undermine traditional Christianity and to emphasize his own understanding of what religion entails.

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Richard Simon : un pionnier sur les sentiers de la tradition

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Faith, Reason and History in Early Modern Catholic Biblical Interpretation : Fr. Richard Simon and St. Thomas More

Faith, Reason and History in Early Modern Catholic Biblical Interpretation : Fr. Richard Simon and St. Thomas More

Richard Simon, Biblical Criticism and Voltaire

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