Hermeneutics at the CrossroadsKevin J. Vanhoozer, James K. A. Smith, Bruce Ellis Benson In this multi-faceted volume, Christian and other religiously committed theorists find themselves at an uneasy point in history -- between premodernity, modernity, and postmodernity -- where disciplines and methods, cultural and linguistic traditions, and religious commitments tangle and cross. Here, leading theorists explore the state of the art of the contemporary hermeneutical terrain. As they address the work of Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Derrida, the essays collected in this wide-ranging work engage key themes in philosophical hermeneutics, hermeneutics and religion, hermeneutics and the other arts, hermeneutics and literature, and hermeneutics and ethics. Readers will find lively exchanges and reflections that meet the intellectual and philosophical challenges posed by hermeneutics at the crossroads. Contributors are Bruce Ellis Benson, Christina Bieber Lake, John D. Caputo, Eduardo J. Echeverria, Benne Faber, Norman Lillegard, Roger Lundin, Brian McCrea, James K. A. Smith, Michael VanderWeele, Kevin Vanhoozer, and Nicholas Wolterstorff. |
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... Equal before God John D. Caputo /95 6. Limited Inc/arnation: Revisiting the Searle/Derrida Debate in Christian Context James K. A. Smith / 112 Part 3. Literature's Contribution to Christian Understanding: Pointing, Witnessing ...
... Equal before God” is a meditation on death, on conversing with the dead, and on being dead equal. Here the crossroad is that of the cemetery, a crossroad between life and death. Caputo follows Kierkegaard's injunction in Works of Love ...
... teach the method that everyone must follow in order to guide their own reason, but merely to explain how I have tried to guide my own” (DM, p. 7). His initial assumption is that everyone has an equal measure of le 6 Kevin J. Vanhoozer.
... equal measure of le bon sens. The diversity of human points of view “does not result from the fact that some people are more reasonable than others, but simply from the fact that we guide our thoughts along different paths and do not ...
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Contents
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2 Resuscitating the Author | 35 |
3 Gadamers Hermeneutics and the Question of Relativism | 51 |
Gadamer Levertovand the Hermeneutics of the Question | 82 |
Haunted Hermeneuticsand Incarnational Iterability | 93 |
On Being Dead Equal before God | 95 |
Revisiting the SearleDerrida Debatein Christian Context | 112 |
Pointing Witnessing Exchanging | 131 |
Robinson Crusoeand the Problem of Witnessing | 150 |
9 John Calvins Notion of Exchange and the Usefulness of Literature | 164 |
Improvisation Participation Authority | 191 |
Jazz Lessons for Interpreters | 193 |
Shakespeares Merchant of Veni | 211 |
Kierkegaards Book on Adler | 225 |
contributors | 241 |
index | 243 |
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