As a reader begins to read a text, and a hearer begins to listen, they engage it from their distinct angle of vision, with their collection of convictions about the nature of human life, their respective theological commitments, their own expectations of what the shape of the future should be. Hence, they enter and reenter a process of interpretation and reinterpretation, the result of which is not simply a restatement of meaning from the past but a production of meaning, new meaning, formed for the first time.
