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Q: Why do we migrate Christian questions to a Christian audience about the Christian bible to a non Christian site?

MikeI have often wondered when people ask an Old Testament question why sometimes they will be told to ask Judaism.SE as though everything in the Old Testament was not a Christian subject. If I ask a question on Christianity.SE I am looking for an answer that might have a Messianic twist even though...

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Dan O'Day
Dan O'Day
4:26 PM
Would it be on topic to ask a question about the interpretation of a biblical text here if I only wanted a Christian worldview in response? Or does that still fall in the realm of BH.SE?
@Caleb @mods ^^^
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@DanO'Day If the exegesis has nothing to do with doctrine, that's for BH.SE. If the question presupposes a particular doctrinal perspective or asks how the exegesis supports a particular doctrine, that'd be for C.SE.
Dan O'Day
Dan O'Day
@El'endiaStarman thanks, I'm putting together a meta response on something and wanted to get clarification on that
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@DanO'Day I think about the most succinct way to put it would be "BH.SE is about what the text says and C.SE is about what the text means."
Dan O'Day
Dan O'Day
4:41 PM
@El'endiaStarman yes, but unfortunately BH.SE more often than not deals with the latter
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@DanO'Day It's still not quite as broad/far-ranging as C.SE.
Jon Ericson
Jon Ericson
@DanO'Day There's room for the same question to exist on all three sites: J.SE, C.SE, and BH.SE. Of course, each version would need to be tailored to the culture of the site it's posted on.
Dan O'Day
Dan O'Day
@JonEricson Full disclosure: I'm answering this right now
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Q: Hermeneutics vs Exegesis

RayIs "Biblical Hermeneutics" the best name for this site? So far, it seems few of the questions asked (similar with earlier phases) have much to do with hermeneutics directly, and are more exegetical. For example, I would expect questions about hermeneutics to relate to, say, horizons of understand...

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That is the reason for these questions
Jon Ericson
Jon Ericson
@DanO'Day Yep. And I think I see where you are going...
Dan O'Day
Dan O'Day
@JonEricson I don't even like the direction I'm going - but I am following the logic of the statements just made as well as what has been happening both here and at BH.SE
There is a logical fallacy underlying all of this, and the only resolution in my mind is either to admit that BH.SE really is Christian OR to narrow its scope
Jon Ericson
Jon Ericson
4:54 PM
@DanO'Day I don't see that as our only choices. What I'd like to see us do is embrace relativism. ;-)
Dan O'Day
Dan O'Day
@JonEricson oddly enough, that is my first point haha
#1 "the worldview of this site is postmodern relativism"
Jon Ericson
Jon Ericson
@DanO'Day I think it's a practical necessity for all Stack Exchange sites and much of the internet.
Dan O'Day
Dan O'Day
@JonEricson indeed
even C.SE has adopted this worldview if you think about it
wax eagle
wax eagle
@DanO'Day that's quite intentional
 
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Dan O'Day
Dan O'Day
8:06 PM
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A: Hermeneutics vs Exegesis

Dan O'DayI think this question needs more attention. I think the site name is misleading. Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with the interpretation of texts; it is not interpretation itself. That falls into the realm of exegesis. Allow me to make a few points and then some proposals: As...

Caleb
Caleb
8:43 PM
@DanO'Day I think El pretty much nailed it. If you want to hear the gambit of possible exegesis, C.SE can't give it. We only handle stuff target at specific doctrinal frameworks or that is so widely accepted that there aren't major differences (or those of us that understand those limitations were sleeping when it went through).
@DanO'Day I think this is the key to the issue we're having right now over there. We do need to do something about the jumping straight to what the text means without working through what it says first.
Dan O'Day
Dan O'Day
@Caleb I concur, that's why I strongly support option two :P
 
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David Stratton
David Stratton
11:21 PM
How in the world did this get up-votes, an actual answer, and not one vote to close in 10 hours? christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/15450/…
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@DavidStratton I dunno. I upvoted the android question (because it was interesting!) and didn't upvote the ape one because the android one got closed. My guess is that it doesn't have as much of a intellectual punch, so to speak. We can entertain the idea of apes being rather like humans, but apparently most people consider androids to be less "human". [shrugs] My $0.02.
fredsbend
fredsbend
11:38 PM
@DavidStratton I had a great answer for the android one. then it closed on me. Disinterested in the apes one. I think both can have elements in an on-topic question.
David Stratton
David Stratton
11:53 PM
Maybe I'm just too picky.

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