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Scriptural Reasoning ("SR") is one type of interdisciplinary, interfaith scriptural reading. It is an evolving practice in which Christians, Jews, Muslims, and sometimes members of other faiths, meet to study their sacred scriptures together, and to explore the ways in which such study can help them understand and respond to particular contemporary issues. Originally developed by theologians and religious philosophers as a means of fostering post-critical and postliberal corrections to patterns of modern reasoning, it has now spread beyond academic circles. == Method == Scriptural Reasoning involves participants from multiple religious traditions〔It is most commonly described as involving Jews, Christians and Muslims (; ; ; ; ; ; and ); for the inclusion of Hindus, see .〕 meeting, very often in small groups, to read and discuss passages from their sacred texts (e.g., Tanakh, the New Testament, and the Qur'an).〔; .〕 The texts will often relate to a common topic - say, the figure of Abraham, or consideration of legal and moral issues of property-holding.〔For the thematic nature of many SR discussions, see ; for collections of themed essays emerging from such discussions, see issues of the (''Journal of Scriptural Reasoning'' ).〕 Participants discuss the content of the texts, and will often explore the variety of ways in which their religious communities have worked with them and continue to work with them, and the ways in which those texts might shape their understanding of and engagement with a range of contemporary issues.〔For SR’s engagement with contemporary issues, see .〕 A participant from any one religious tradition might therefore: * Discuss with the other participants his or her own readings of the texts from his or her own tradition * Discuss with them ''their'' attempts to make sense of the texts from his or her own tradition, and * In turn discuss with them the texts from their own traditions.〔 provides a transcript and analysis of an SR group's conversation about a particular Qur'anic passage; for more general descriptions of SR, see ; and .〕 Scriptural Reasoning has sometimes been described as a "tent of meeting" - a Biblical ''mishkan'' (Heb. משׁכן Ara. مسكن) - a reference to the story of Genesis 18. Steven Kepnes, a Jewish philosopher, writes: Participants in SR practice come to it as both representatives of academic institutions and particular "houses" (churches, mosques, synagogues) of worship. SR meets, however, outside of these institutions and houses in special times and in separate spaces that are likened to Biblical "tents of meeting". Practitioners come together in these tents of meeting to read and reason with scriptures. They then return to their academic and religious institutions and to the world with renewed energy and wisdom for these institutions and the world.〔See . Note that Kepnes’ handbook is pointed to by various third party sources as an appropriate description of SR. See, for example, and .〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scriptural reasoning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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