Heidegger's Response To Gadamer In Overcoming The Primacy Of

In response to Heidegger’s ontological approach towards hermeneutics and understanding, Gadamer’s question is how can we move past the “ontological obstructions of the scientific concept of objectivity and do justice to the historicity of understanding.” One way forward for Gadamer was in overcoming the primacy of self-consciousness. He argues that all understanding is interpretive. For theological method this means that theologians have to examine the roles of understanding when developing their models.