About This Journal
The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning (JSR) is an academic, online, double-blind, peer-reviewed publication of the Society of Scriptural Reasoning hosted by Hamline University. The JSR nurtures conversations between scholars of various religious traditions on topics such as hermeneutics, inter-faith dialogue, philosophical theology, religious ethics and practice, the significance of scriptural texts, and past and present traditions of interpretation. We publish scholarship that demonstrates scholarly rigor and hermeneutical openness, that exhibits a dialogical character, and that engages interdisciplinary and cross-traditional perspectives.Aims and Scope
The JSR publishes scholarship on religious texts and traditions, focusing on the forms of reasoning and the communities of reading and practice these texts and traditions engender. It promotes scholarly conversation on these topics across the boundaries of both scholarly disciplines and religious traditions. It welcomes contributions across a wide range of scholarly disciplines within the study of religion that engage with religious texts and with the modes of reasoning developed within religious traditions (including legal, exegetical, theological, philosophical, practical, mystical, or poetic).Scholarly contributions to the JSR are diverse. They may include focused studies of particular texts or themes, constructive theological, philosophical, or ethical arguments, ethnographic studies, comparative theological studies, and critical analyses of texts, thinkers, or communities. Articles featured in the journal might engage with a specific religious text, thinker, or community of practice, a debate internal to a given tradition, or a question that yields a comparative study of different religious traditions. We encourage contributors to employ non-reductive approaches and contextual analyses that open new possibilities, including reparative ones, for addressing pressing problems and crises confronting both religious and secular communities. While the JSR facilitates conversation between the study of different religions, individual contributions do not need to engage multiple traditions, but all contributions should imagine an audience of readers beyond the boundaries of their specific discipline and tradition.
The JSR emerged in 2001 from "Scriptural Reasoning," an interreligious practice of text study that emerged from the practice of "Textual Reasoning." Find the Journal of Textual Reasoning here.
For more information about the practice of Scriptural Reasoning, we recommend the following resources: