<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Most if not all of André Scrima’s texts are responses to di!erent requests: academic or spiritual, public or private. Many of them issued from his speeches that di!erent interlocutors or auditors recorded and transcribed. He even confessed that he never produced a text as an “author” who autonomously deals with a subject. His creativity turned into discourse only in relationship with the other, solicited by the other, in front of the other. What function or meaning did André Scrima attribute to his orality, which incidentally he never failed to mention in the published version of his texts? “Event of speech” arising from profound meditation on spiritual matters? Detachment of a spiritual traveller from the position of “author” and its production? Model of sharing the spiritual knowledge? Perhaps a model of tradition? My paper tries to analyse these possibilities.</p></abstract>

Most if not all of André Scrima’s texts are responses to di!erent requests: academic or spiritual, public or private. Many of them issued from his speeches that di!erent interlocutors or auditors recorded and transcribed. He even confessed that he never produced a text as an “author” who autonomously deals with a subject. His creativity turned into discourse only in relationship with the other, solicited by the other, in front of the other. What function or meaning did André Scrima attribute to his orality, which incidentally he never failed to mention in the published version of his texts? “Event of speech” arising from profound meditation on spiritual matters? Detachment of a spiritual traveller from the position of “author” and its production? Model of sharing the spiritual knowledge? Perhaps a model of tradition? My paper tries to analyse these possibilities.

André Scrima: Orality and Writing

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu

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Most if not all of André Scrima’s texts are responses to di!erent requests: academic or spiritual, public or private. Many of them issued from his speeches...

André Scrima: Orality and Writing

Data publikacji: 29 sty 2021

Zakres stron: 395 - 411

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2020-0029

Słowa kluczowe
Hermeneutic as spiritual journey, spontaneity of speech, of the Word, of investigation, participative audience

© 2020 Anca Manolescu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

André Scrima: Orality and Writing

Data publikacji: 29 sty 2021

Zakres stron: 395 - 411

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2020-0029

Słowa kluczoweHermeneutic as spiritual journey, spontaneity of speech, of the Word, of investigation, participative audience

© 2020 Anca Manolescu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
Hermeneutic as spiritual journey, spontaneity of speech, of the Word, of investigation, participative audience