The influence of postmodern philosophy on the renewal of religious thought and its contemporary discourse (Postmodern hermeneutics)

Abstract

The impact of postmodern philosophy on the renewal of religious thought and its contemporary discourse - (the postmodern hermeneutics)

This paper critically and objectively examines the impact of postmodern philosophy on the renewal of religious thought and its contemporary discourse - (hermeneutically), by re-reading religious texts after their deconstruction and rebuilding in a way that suits the circumstances of time and space, and by new methodological tools that work to know the secrets of the texts and decode them away from The authority and purpose of the author, within a comparative knowledge system that does not believe in the existence of absolute facts within the texts ..,

This is through testing a set of research hypotheses that stem from wasting the historical dimension of religious texts (temporally and spatially), and subjecting the tools of contemporary intellectual production to the ancient tradition and surrender to the rule of “no diligence in the text” instead of the right of the mind to diligence,

He brought contemporary religious thought, with a crisis of dependency, into the ancestral tradition and in confrontation with reason and the method of rationality

Among the proposed solutions to get out of this contemporary intellectual crisis, the researcher will test the hypothesis of dealing with religious discourse like all other historical discourses such as literature,

philosophy, science, etc., that can be interpreted in order to understand it and criticize the negative aspects in it.

This research provides a brief explanation of the concept of postmodernism and its philosophical sayings such as deconstruction and criticism of metaphysics, and an explanation of its implications for the concept of religious renewal, including thought and contemporary discourse. A full explanation of its ideas and mechanisms, as the researcher presented a critical view to it by presenting the problems of these approaches in contemporary Arab culture,

The research reached research results, the most important of which is that the hermeneutics is an expression of a multi-visionary intellectual trend rather than an expression of one approach, which proceeds from giving the reader a greater role in reading the text within the social and cultural reality at a current time moment, and thus the goal of the hermeneutics in relation to the Islamic situation is to extract Islam from Being a definitive definite understanding of the universe as defined by Islamic religious heritage, it reaches our contemporary reality as a final and normative heritage that requires action, but rather creates an Islamic knowledge system based on an understanding of the religious text according to contemporary social and cultural conditions for reading the text, and not according to the cultural and social environment that accompanied the jurisprudence of the jurists in the past

The researcher concluded his research with the following result, "In front of these data, the researcher finds that the hermeneutics method is still an advanced awareness among secular Arab intelligentsia, which managed to disrupt the prevailing Arab awareness of religious hermeneutics and its relationship to contemporary reality, but it has not yet reached the state of popular awareness, which prevents the achievement of the objectives of the hermeneutics approaches , Which is the awareness of a person of his existence.