Theological hermeneutics /

Theological hermeneutics /

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Author / Creator:Jensen, Alexander S., 1968-
Imprint:London : SCM Press, 2007.
Description:xiv, 237 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:SCM core text
SCM core text.
Subject:
Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13225211
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ISBN:9780334029014
0334029015
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Summary:"Hermeneutics is the theory of understanding, which becomes relevant whenever understanding becomes problematic. Religious and other authoritative texts do not make sense any more, in a changing context, and so reflection on the way in which they are understood becomes necessary. The SCM Core Text: Theological Hermeneutics provides a historical outline of the problem of understanding from the beginnings to the present, focusing on key thinkers and their theological and philosophical contexts. It follows the development of hermeneutics from the theory of the interpretation of texts to that of the interpretation of existence. Following the hermeneutic school, it presents the hermeneutical problem as the foundational theological and philosophical question."--Jacket.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • What is hermeneutics?
  • The hermeneutic circle
  • The place of hermeneutics
  • The approach of this book
  • 1. Hermeneutics in Antiquity
  • Introduction
  • Language and meaning
  • Graeco-Roman antiquity
  • Allegorical interpretation
  • Historical grammatical interpretation
  • Judaism
  • A developing tradition
  • Translations (Targumim)
  • Typology
  • Midrash
  • Pesharim
  • Allegorical interpretation
  • Christianity
  • New Testament
  • The Apologists
  • Origen
  • The Antiochene School
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Augustine of Hippo
  • Introduction and biography
  • Sources
  • Words and signs
  • Memory
  • Using signs
  • The inner word in the spoken word
  • Conclusion
  • 3. The Middle Ages
  • Jerome's translation
  • Medieval interpretation
  • Ways of speaking of God
  • Equivocity
  • Analogy
  • Univocity
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Humanism and the Reformation
  • Humanism
  • Ad fontes!
  • Two literal senses of Scripture
  • Erasmus
  • Reformation
  • Sola scriptura
  • The key to the Scriptures
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Rationalism and Enlightenment
  • A new context
  • Enlightenment
  • Orthodoxy
  • Scottish common-sense philosophy and modern fundamentalism
  • Common sense
  • Common sense, Bacon and fundamentalism
  • Pietism
  • Conclusion
  • 6. FriedrichSchleiermacher: Hermeneutics as the Art of Understanding
  • Introduction and biography
  • Sources
  • Feeling and language
  • The art of understanding
  • Grammatical and psychological interpretation
  • Grammatical interpretation
  • Psychological interpretation
  • Grammatical and psychological
  • Historical criticism
  • The hermeneutic circle
  • Outlook: Perception, feeling and language
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Historicism
  • The text as source for the study of history: Dilthey and the history of religion school
  • Wilhelm Dilthey: hermeneutics as the foundation of the human sciences
  • History of religion school
  • Hermeneutics of suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche and Freud
  • Karl Marx
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sigmund Freud
  • 8. Existentialism I: Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann
  • Introduction
  • Bultmann and Heidegger: Sources
  • Existentialism
  • Heidegger
  • Understanding
  • State-of-mind
  • Discourse and language
  • Interpretation
  • Bultmann
  • Human existence
  • The word of God
  • Conclusion
  • 9. Existentialism II: The Path to Language
  • Understanding through language
  • Heidegger in his later career
  • Gelaut der Stille (sound of silence) and Lauten des Wortes (sounding of the word)
  • Unterschied (dif-ference)
  • Ereignis (event/appropriation)
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • The fusion of horizons
  • An uncritical hermeneutic?
  • Paul Ricoeur
  • Sources and literature
  • Critical method
  • The surplus of meaning
  • The conflict of interpretations
  • Action and text
  • Conclusion
  • Hermeneutical theology
  • The new hermeneutics
  • Ernst Fuchs and the New Quest for the historical Jesus
  • Gerhard Ebeling
  • 10. The Universality of the Sign I: Open Sign Systems
  • Structuralism
  • Ferdinand de Saussure: the founder of structuralism
  • Claude Levi-Strauss: structuralist interpretation of myth
  • Jacques Lacan: structuralist psychoanalysis
  • Post-structuralism and deconstruction
  • Post-structuralism
  • Deconstruction
  • Postmodern theology
  • 11. The Universality of the Sign II: Closed Sign Systems
  • Karl Barth
  • Hermeneutics and theology: speaking of God
  • Analogy of faith
  • Biblical hermeneutics
  • Canonical approaches and new biblical theology
  • Brevard Childs
  • Literary criticism
  • Background
  • Principles
  • 12. Critical Theory, Feminism and Postcolonialism
  • Critical Theory
  • The Frankfurt School
  • Jurgen Habermas
  • The debate with Gadamer
  • Critical remarks
  • Feminism
  • Feminist interpretation
  • The construction of gender
  • The atomization of feminism
  • Postcolonialism
  • 13. Towards a Hermeneutical Theology
  • Preliminary considerations
  • Overcoming naive realism
  • Theological foundations
  • A hermeneutical theology
  • A linguistically constituted experience
  • Critical interpretation of texts
  • Speaking within the theologian's context
  • The nature of theological language
  • Dogmatic language
  • Narrative, praise and promise
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • The inner word
  • The significance of hermeneutics
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Names

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