Beyond the Bible, Beyond the West is a research in ontological hermeneutics: it is critical of textual positivism which makes the univocity and clarity of a text the main goal of its task and also of cultural positivism a cultural matrix that elevates univocity and clarity as the ultimate goal of contemporary systems. This essay indirectly sketches a cultural critique and not only a theological one. Means, medium and guarantor of this ontological indelible reserve are ambivalence and paradox. We will try to follow the trace of these throughout the hermeneutic arc and not only at its beginning.
