Gadamer, the Hermeneutical Process and the Trinitarian Analogies

In this paper, I methodically dissect the fundamental hermeneu­tical process that Hans-Georg Gadamer theorizes in Truth and Method, at the light of the notion of meaning. I discuss the three moments of understanding, interpretation, and application, as well as their mutual relations, and place in the fore the grounding motive of correctness. Working from here, I reflect on the religious dimension of such a threefold structure, and analyse the main notions of Trinity, Incarnation, sacrifice, predication and event, to sketch how Gadamer’s approach analogically connects to the Christian dogmatic conceptual framework. I thereby explore the hypothesis of a Trinitarian structuring of the hermeneutical process itself, and probe its acute philosophical and theological significance.