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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... historical and interpretation as present. With Lessing, overcoming historical distance becomes an acute problem. Lundin argues that Faulkner provides a middle way between the ideas that interpretation is either a return to the past or ...
... historical context, Descartes was not suffering from what Rorty terms the “Cartesian anxiety” (“How can I know anything for certain?”); rather, he was preoccupied with showing “how the world of physics, the mathematically describable ...
... Historical critics, he says, are not critical enough; they do not penetrate as far as the text's distinctive and unique subject matter. They do not perceive “what there is” or “what stands” in the Bible. The meaning of the words in the ...
... historical Paul. Some critics went so far as to speak of the “violence” Barth had done to Paul.26 The charge is that Barth moves to the revelatory referent too fast, bypassing the historical sense of Scripture in his haste to come face ...
... historical situation. Both empathetic and reconstructive approaches mistakenly interpret the author apart from the point of Sache of his or her discourse.28 In contrast, Barth posits, on the basis of the revelation of the wholly other ...
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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