Hermeneutical approach that emphasizes participation in the reality Scripture reveals rather than merely extracting information from biblical texts. This method understands interpretation as involving the whole person within a community of practice shaped by tradition and guided by the Spirit, challenging both modernist objectivism that removes the interpreter from the text and postmodern subjectivism that reduces the text to the interpreterâs perspective. Participatory hermeneutics recovers pre-modern participatory understanding of knowledge while engaging contemporary hermeneutical insights. This approach provides an interpretive framework that addresses multiple theological mutations: it challenges
Primitive Biblicism by acknowledging interpretive traditions while maintaining Scriptureâs authority; it counters
Foundationalism by understanding interpretation as participation rather than detached observation; and it transforms
Tribal Epistemology by connecting local interpretation with universal tradition. The method is enhanced by
Analogia Fidei which establishes faith as participatory rather than objective knowledge, and works with
Sachkritik by identifying the subject matter that demands participation.