Kutsal metinler ve otorite arasındaki ilişki sorunu, genel olarak, kökenci ve tarihsel yaklaşımlar içinde birbirine ilk elde zıt görünen formlarda elealınmaktadır. Ancak bu ilişki içinde asıl sorun, kutsal metinlerin otoritesinibir imge veya maskeye dönüştürerek kendisini gizleyen yorum geleneklerininveya stratejilerinin otoriter karaktere bürünmesiyle ortaya çıkmaktadır.
The authority that has been accepted as a sacred phenomenon by many The problem of relationship between sacred texts and authority is generally explored within two seemingly opposite approaches: Genetic and historical. However, the essential problem, which can be grasped within these approaches, reveals itself when interpretive traditions or strategies of interpretation of sacred texts transform themselves into an authoritarian character which hides itself behind the politics of turning sacred texts to an image or mask under the label of ‘sacred authority’.
