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Hermeneutics at the crossroads / edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer, James K.A. Smith, and Bruce Ellis Benson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.
- Indiana series in the philosophy of religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hermeneutics--Congresses.
- Hermeneutics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Philosophical hermeneutics revisited : miracles, resuscitation, questions
- Derrida and deconstruction : haunted hermeneutics and incarnational iterability
- Literature's contribution to Christian understanding : pointing, witnessing, exchanging
- The ethics of interpretation : improvisation, participation, authority.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07282-X
- 0-253-11198-6
- OCLC:
- 476030844
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