Hermeneutics in Everyday Life [ Flutterby ]

Suppose you’re traveling to work and you see a stop sign. What do you do? That depends on how you exegete the stop sign.

A serious and educated Catholic rolls through the intersection because he believes he cannot understand the stop sign apart from its interpretive community and tradition. Observing that the interpretive community doesn’t take it too seriously, he doesn’t feel obligated to take it too seriously either.

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