Volume 9, Issue 1, February 1996

What does it mean to live “in the margins of tradition”? Many intentional Christian communities occupy this space of marginality, living on the edge of a tradition in which they feel both the need to belong and the impossibility of belonging. Marginal hermeneutics suggests that the interpretive space of “the margins” is a creative, productive, vital site of receptive and critical engagement with a tradition’s enriching and distorting effects, and with our own contemporary questions and concerns.