The contemporary evolution of the religious epistemology in result of imposing questions and finding implications

• Main Authors: Mohammad Mahdi Ajilian Mafogh, Mahdi Jalaly
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alzahra University 2011-06-01
• Series: تحقیقات علوم قرآن و حدیث
• Subjects: religious epistemology; imposing questions; finding implications; text; philosophical hermeneutics; historical evolution
• Online Access: http://tqh.alzahra.ac.ir/article_3384_99562f5a6a440142876fc1978b1c84dd.pdf

In this study , the concept of religious epistemology and its <br /> accomplishment in different historical eras has been discussed , <br /> indicating the invalidity of different theories in this connection and <br /> emphasizing on the contemporary evolution of the religious epistemology in result of imposing questions to the text and <br /> methodically reaching its implications. According to this study the <br /> evolution of the religious epistemology is due to newly appeared <br /> questions in each era which has been raised by the necessities and <br /> requirements of the time. These new question demand answers from the <br /> text which ends in the evolution of religious epistemology. In this <br /> connection, the difference between imposing questions to the text and <br /> getting the answers from it has been discussed which indicates that <br /> premises and presupposition in this procedure and the interpreter's <br /> expectations should be taken into consideration only when imposing <br /> questions to the text. In addition we show that although the questions are <br /> consistent with time and therefore contemporary, the answers are not so; <br /> that is the refutation of the theory of historical limitation of <br /> comprehension.