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Author Thiselton, Anthony C.

Title New horizons in hermeneutics / Anthony C. Thiselton
Published Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan Pub. House, [1992]
©1992

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Description xii, 703 pages ; 24 cm
Contents III. From semiotics to deconstruction and post-modernist theories of textuality -- Code in semiotic theory: the nature of semiotic theory -- Need semiotics lead to deconstructionism? Different understandings of the implications of semiotic theory -- Roland Barthes: From hermeneutics through semiotics to intralinguistic world, and to text as play -- Difficulties and questions: the inter-mixture of semiotics and world-view -- Jacques Derrida: an endless series of signs under erasure -- Postmodernist and deconstructionist approaches in biblical interpretation -- Further philosophical evaluations and critiques of deconstructionism, some in dialogue with Wittgenstein -- IV. Pre-modern biblical interpretation: the hermeneutics of tradition -- Relations between pre-modern, modern and post-modern perspectives: some parallels and contrasts -- Tradition as context of understanding; the two Testaments, Gnosticism and the relevance of Irenaeus -- Varied issues in allegorical interpretation: its demythologizing function in pre-Christian and philonic interpretation -- The beginnings of Christian allegorical interpretation -- Allegory or application? The development of pastoral hermeneutical consciousness in Origen and a contrast with Chrysostom
IX. The hermeneutics of metacriticism and the foundations of knowledge -- The context of the paradigm-shift to radical metacritical hermeneutics and the nature of Gadamer's hermeneutics -- Gadamer's claim for 'the universality of the hermeneutical problem' and the development of critiques of language and of knowledge -- Pannenberg's metacritical unifying of a hermeneutics of universal history with the scientific status of theology -- X. The hermeneutics of suspicion and retrieval: Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutical theory -- Human fallibility, hermeneutical suspicion, and Freudian psychoanalysis: Idols, dreams, and symbols -- Paul Ricoeur on metaphor and narrative: Possibility, time, and transformation -- Metacriticism, fiction, history, and truth: Some assessments largely in the light of speech-act theory -- Some consequences for Ricoeur's approach to biblical hermeneutics
Introduction: New horizons -- Aims and concerns -- Hermeneutics in the university, and the Bible and the church -- New horizons for readers: reading with transforming effects -- New horizons in the development of hermeneutics -- The new horizons of fresh argument and transforming the reading-paradigm -- I. Transforming texts: Preliminary observations -- The capacity of texts to transform readers -- The capacity of readers and texts to transform texts: different notions of intertextuality -- Situational and horizontal factors in transforming texts -- Factors arising from semiotics, theories of hermeneutics, and theories of textuality -- II. What is a text? Shifting paradigms of textuality -- Are authors part of texts? Introductory issues -- Are situations or readers part of texts? -- Theological claims about the givenness and actualization of biblical texts -- Further theological issues: disembodied texts or communicative address?
V. The hermeneutics of enquiry: From the Reformation to modern theory -- The three polemical contexts which give 'Claritas Scripturae' its currency: epistemology, 'higher' meanings, and efficacy -- Questioning in the service of faith: Christ and reflective criteria in Luther -- Further reflection on interpretation in Calvin and in English Reformers -- The rise and development of modern hermeneutical theory -- VI. Schleiermacher's hermeneutics of understanding -- Schleiermacher's most distinctive contribution to the subject -- The broader context: Romanticism, Pietism, culture, and hermeneutics -- Schleiermacher's system of hermeneutics: 'Grammatical' (shared language) and 'psychological' (language-use) axes -- Schleiermacher's system of hermeneutics: the hermeneutical circle and a 'better' understanding than the author -- Theological ambiguities and hermeneutical achievements
VII. Pauline and other texts in the light of a hermeneutics of understanding -- Paul, Pauline texts, and Schleiermacher's hermeneutical circle -- The hermeneutical circle and the quest for a 'centre' of Pauline thought -- A hermeneutics of 'life-world' reconstruction in Dilthey and Betti: 'Re-living' and 'openness' -- Pauline texts and reconstruction: A 'better' understanding than the author? -- Understanding the author of an anonymous text: the Epistle to the Hebrews -- VIII: The hermeneutics of self-involvement: From existentialist models to speech-act theory -- Reader-involvement, address, and states of affairs: The contrasting assumptions of existentialist hermeneutics and 'the logic of self-involvement' in Austin and Evans -- The hermeneutics of the earlier Heidegger and Bultmann's approach to Paul -- Christological texts in Paul and in the Synoptic Gospels in the light of speech-act theory in Austin, Evans, Searle, and du Plessis -- Illocutionary acts in J. R. Searle and F. Recanati: direction of fit between words and the world -- The 'world-to-word fit' of a hermeneutic of promise: Types of illocutions; the work of Christ in Paul; promise in the Old Testament
XI. The hermeneutics of socio-critical theory: Its relation to socio-pragmatic hermeneutics and to liberation theologies -- The nature of socio-critical hermeneutics: Habermas on hermeneutics, knowledge, interest, and an emancipatory critique -- Habermas's theory of communicative action in the double context of social theory in Marx, Weber and Parsons, and speech-act theory: Habermas and biblical interpretation -- Richard Rorty's socio-pragmatic contextualism vs. Karl-Otto Apel's cognitive anthropology as transcendental metacritique -- XII. The hermeneutis of liberation theologies and feminist theologies: socio-critical and socio-pragmatic strands -- The major concerns, development, and dual character of Latin American Liberation hermeneutics -- Parallels and contrasts with black hermeneutics: the varied approaches of Cone, Boesak, Goba, Mosala, and other writers -- Further examples of Marxist or 'materialist' readings: Belo and Clevenot -- The nature and development of feminist biblical hermeneutics -- The use of socio-critical and socio-pragmatic methods and epistemologies in feminist hermeneutics: Ruether, Fiorenza, Tolbert, and other writers -- Further complexities in feminist hermeneutics: Parallels between demythologizing and depatriarchializing
XIII. The hermeneutics of reading in the context of literary theory -- Problematic and productive aspects of the literary approach and the legacy of the new criticism -- A closer examination of narrative theory -- Formalist and structuralist approaches to biblical narrative texts -- From post-structuralism to Semiotic theories of reading: Intertextuality and the paradigm-shift to 'reading' -- The paradigm of 'reading' in biblical studies and intertextuality in biblical interpretation -- XIV. The hermeneutics of reading in reader-response theories of literary meaning -- Wolfgang Iser's theory of reader-interaction and its utilization in biblical studies -- Umberto Eco's Semiotic and text-related reader-response theories and their implications for biblical texts -- Differences among more radical reader-response theories: The psychoanalytical approach of Holland and the socio-political approach of Bleich -- Further observations on the reader-orientated Semiotics of Culler and on the social pragmatism of Fish -- What Fish's counterarguments overlook about language: Fish and Wittgenstein -- The major difficulties and limited value of Fish's later theory of biblical studies and for theology
XV. The hermeneutics of pastoral theology: (1) Ten ways of reading texts in relation to varied reading-situations -- Life-worlds, intentional directedness, and enquiring reading in reconstructionist models -- Disruptions of passive reading in existentialist models -- Drawing readers into biblical narrative-worlds: Four theories of narrative in relation to reading-situations -- Biblical symbols: Productive and spiritual reading, with questions partly from Freud and Jung for pastoral theology -- Models five through to eight on variable reader-effects: Semiotic productivity, reader-response, socio-pragmatic contextualization, and deconstruction -- XVI. The hermeneutics of pastoral theology: (2) Further reading-situations, pluralism, and 'believing' reading -- Some implications of speech-act models for enquiring and believing reading (ninth model); and the socio-critical quest to transcend instrumental uses of texts (tenth model) -- 'The present situation' in hermeneutical approaches pastoral theology and to social science: criteria of relevance in Alfred Schutz and the critique of the cross -- The transformation of criteria of relevance and power in the new horizons of the cross and resurrection: Towards a new understanding of hermeneutical pluralism
Analysis Bible Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics
Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible - Hermeneutics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [621]-661) and indexes
SUBJECT Bible -- Hermeneutics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013650
Subject Hermeneutics.
LC no. 91040572
ISBN 0310515904
Other Titles Cover subtitle: The theory and practice of transforming biblical reading