摘要：The Aesthetics of Reception deals with the concept of paradigm shift. A paradigm guides the community of researchers and answers the questions posed by such community. This is paramount to explain a text to the present generation of readers, because when a paradigm cannot explain the text in a relevant way it is discarded and replaced by another one capable of answering the new questions arising in a new context. The paradigm shift can be demonstrated in the history of parable interpretation, which was dominated by the allegorical paradigm until the rise of historical and critical contemporary methods. Historical and critical methods emphasize the historical distance between the text and the reader and they also point out how a text from the past can speak to the present historical context. The new hermeneutics states that parables are aesthetical objects having a theological and existential dimension, and its main feature is how it challenges or reverses the readers' expectations.
关键词：Parables;hermeneutics;paradigm shift.;Parábolas;hermenéutica;cambio de paradigma.;Parábolas, hermenêutica, mudança de paradigma
