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2007 Wheaton Theology Conference
 
Whence Hermeneutic Authority?
Tony Jones, National Coordinator of Emergent Village
 
Abstract
 
Tipp O.Neill famously quipped that .All politics are local..
Maybe so, but the
postmodernists have argued that /all hermeneutics are local/.
It is our local communities
that shape how we see the world, and.as
Christians.our ecclesial communities that
shape how we interact with the texts of scripture.
Stanley Fish calls them .authoritative
interpretative communities;.
we call them .church..
But in what way does the grand
tradition of church history interact with our local iterations of the faith?
Does Chalcedon
trump Minneapolis?
The emerging church movement offers some insight into how
coming generations will navigate this relationship between old and new, for in an age of
micronarratives, Vincent of Lerins.s
exhortation that orthodoxy must .hold
fast to what
has been believed everywhere, always, and by all.
rings somewhat hollow.
Or, maybe,
orthodoxy has always been fluid, dynamic, open source.
*I.
Introduction: What.s a Strike?*
* *
For many years, I was a baseball umpire.
I started umping before I could even
drive.
I.d pick up the big, outside chest protector and mask at the supervisor.s
house, then
ride my bike.with the protector on my back.to the ballfield that I was assigned,
somewhere in my hometown of Edina, Minnesota.
During my high school years, I umped
hundreds of games, sometime two and three a night all summer.
These kids were in Little
League, and the pitching was, as you might guess, highly irregular.
But there was a funny
belief among those of us who umped that to wear shin guards was a sign of weakness.
So, I spent many summers with very bumpy and very purple shins.
By college, I had moved up to junior and senior Babe Ruth League games, and by
seminary, I was officiating high school and American Legion ball.
I went to Fuller, in
Pasadena, so we umped all year round.
Needless to say, umping alongside cops,
firefighters, insurance salesmen, and school teachers was a nice respite from the LaSor
inductive approach to learning Hebrew.
During my third year in California, I made it to
the state high school semi-finals, where I saw my first 90 mile an hour fast ball.
I don.t
know if that pitcher made it to the Big Show, but the twelve Major League scouts with
radar guns in the crowd sure intimidated me.
Back in Minnesota, I continued to climb the umpiring ladder.
Division III
baseball, then D-II, and then, the year of my retirement, my one-and-only Division I
game: in a nailbiter, the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers overcame the
University North Dakota Fighting Sioux, 16-2.
I umped and third base, and I made one
call all game.
I retired that year, after Julie gave birth to our second child and informed
me that she wouldn.t
be a weekend widow any longer.
Umpiring on the bases.like
that D-I game on third base.is a lot like what a
police officer friend of mine told me.
.Being a cop,.
she said, .Is 99% sheer boredom,
and 1% sheer terror.. That.s why I volunteered whenever possible, to be the plate
umpire..working the plate.
is umpire lingo for it.
And that.s a different kind of terror.
A plate ump sees about 300 pitches in a 9-inning game, and he.s got to make a
decision on about half of them.
Every pitch, you see, is either a ball or a strike.
If the
batter swings at the pitch, then it.s
a strike (although, even whether it was a swing or not
is often called into question).
If the batter doesn.t
swing at the pitch, the umpire has a
decision to make.a very quick decision.
If the ball crosses the plate in the strike zone,
it.s
called a strike.
If it does not, it.s
called a ball.
Simple, right?
Well, we umpires had to collectively affirm that we interpret the
strike zone according to the .literal,
or normal, sense.. (By that I mean, of course, .the
meaning which the writer expressed.. To that end, let me read you the pericope from our
almost-sacred text, the Baseball Rulebook, Rule 2.00,
The Strike Zone is defined as that area over homeplate the upper limit of which is
a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of
the uniform pants, and the lower level is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap.
The Strike Zone shall be determined from the batter’s stance as the batter is
prepared to swing at a pitched ball.
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