ABSTRACT
Hermeneutic activity proceeds from particular ontological and epistemological presuppositions. This chapter seeks to contribute towards feminist theologies of interpretation through suggesting a particular hermeneutic framework and set of principles. Postmodernism problematizes the relationship of God to metaphysics. It has become something of a truism in postmodern thought that the ‘onto-theological tradition’ has a symbiotic relationship with models of the Christian God. Truth and the Reality of God is an exercise in natural theology. It makes claims about the nature of the relationship between God, world and truth based on reason and evidence. Ian Markham is sympathetic to this notion of traditioned rationalities, although cautious about the apparent assumption of criteria for coherence and intelligibility which would be true across all traditions. Markham accepts that knowing is located in communities and that interpretative frameworks seek ‘to impose order on reality, not the other way round’.
