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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820682703321

Autore

Vanhoozer Kevin J

Titolo

Hermeneutics at the Crossroads [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-282-07282-X

0-253-11198-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithJames K. A. <1970->

BensonBruce Ellis <1960->

Disciplina

121.686

121/.686

Soggetti

Hermeneutics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; preface; acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Discourse on Matter: Hermeneutics and the "Miracle" of Unders; 2. Resuscitating the Author; 3. Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Relativism; 4. "The Knowledge That One Does Not Know": Gadamer, Levertov,and the Hermeneutics of the Question; 5. Hauntological Hermeneutics and the Interpretationof Christian Faith: On Being Dead Equal before God; 6. Limited Inc/arnation: Revisiting the Searle/Derrida Debatein Christian Context; 7. Meeting at the Modern Crossroads: Fiction, History,and Christian Understanding

8. The Hermeneutics of Deliverance: Robinson Crusoeand the Problem of Witnessing9. John Calvin's Notion of "Exchange" and the Usefulness of Literature; 10. The Improvisation of Hermeneutics: Jazz Lessons for Interpreters; 11. Ethical Hermeneutics and the Theater: Shakespeare's Merchant of Veni; 12. (Revelation, Interpretation) Authority: Kierkegaard's Book on Adler; contributors; index

Sommario/riassunto

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 ke