Theology, hermeneutics, and imagination :: the crisis of interpretation at the end of modernity /

This book explores the contemporary crisis of biblical interpretation by examining modern and postmodern forms of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion'. Garrett Green looks at several thinkers who played key roles in creating a radically suspicious reading of the Bible. After Kant, Hamann, and F...

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1. Verfasser: Green, Garrett
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Zusammenfassung:This book explores the contemporary crisis of biblical interpretation by examining modern and postmodern forms of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion'. Garrett Green looks at several thinkers who played key roles in creating a radically suspicious reading of the Bible. After Kant, Hamann, and Feuerbach comes Nietzsche, who marked the turn from modern to postmodern suspicion. Green argues that similarities between Derrida's deconstruction and Barth's theology of signs show that postmodern suspicion ought not to be viewed simply as a threat to theology but as a secular counterpart to its own hermeneutical insights. When theology attends to its proper task of describing the grammar of scriptural imagination, it discovers a source of suspicion more radical than the secular, the hermeneutical expression of God's gracious judgement. Green concludes that Christians are committed to the hermeneutical imperative, the never-ending struggle for the meaning of scripture in the hopeful insecurity of the faithful imagination.
Beschreibung:A revised and explanded version of the Edward Cadbury lectures delivered at the Univ. of Birmingham in Feb. and March 1998, under the title: The faithful imagination.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 229 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
ISBN:0511007663
9780511007668
051103685X
9780511036859
9780511487729
051148772X

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