In the first week of this class I was reading yet again about hermeneutics and the hermeneutical circle or spiral. Whenever reading for my classes I find myself lost in thought and hardly able to pay close attention to the reading at hand. I realized while reading that this is in fact part of the hermeneutical cycle. I am reading things that stir up thoughts which then stir up problems that desire solutions or some type of further thought or figuring. While some thoughts unrelated should just be jotted down on a pad of paper, others deserve serious thought and should not simply be shooed aside with the label “unnecessary” or “irrelevant.”
If you have not heard before of a hermeneutical spiral, it is basically the idea that we come to a new idea with our preconceptions and assumptions, but as we listen, read, or experience more of life we reshape our conceptions and assumptions. Thus, our mind is formed and transformed by the taking in of new information.
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