New Horizons in Hermeneutics: The Theory and Practice of Transforming Biblical Reading

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Harper Collins, 1992 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 703 pages

Dr. Anthony Thiselton's thorough approach to the growing discipline of hermeneutics takes account of a comprehensive range of theoretical models of reading and interpretation. He evaluates both the foundations on which they rest and their practical implications for Old and New Testament reading. Building on his earlier influential work, The Two Horizons, Dr. Thiselton examines theories of texts, semiotics and literature, the legacy of Patristic and Reformation hermeneutics, and the use of socio-critical theory, liberation theology, and Marxist, feminist, and black hermeneutics, and discusses every major hermeneutical theorist. This exhaustive and rigorous critique will prove valuable to anyone undertaking advanced research in hermeneutics, including teachers and students of theology and language or literary theory.

 

Contents

Gadamers Claim for the Universality of the Hermeneutical
2
From Hermeneutics through Semiotics
3
The Use of SocioCritical and SocioPragmatic Methods
5
Reading with Transforming Effects
8
The New Horizons of Fresh Argument and Transforming
16
Notes to Introduction n 131
29
Situational and Horizonal Factors in Transforming Texts
42
Notes to Chapter I
52
Notes to Chapter VII
267
The Hermeneutics of the Earlier Heidegger and Bultmanns
279
Notes to Chapter VIII
307
THE HERMENEUTICS OF METACRITICISM
313
Pannenbergs Metacritical Unifying of a Hermeneutics
331
Some Assessments
358
Notes to Chapter X
373
Richard Rortys SocioPragmatic Contextualism vs KarlOtto
393

Are Situations or Readers Part of Texts?
58
Disembodied Texts
68
Notes to Chapter II
75
Need Semiotics Lead to Deconstructionism? Different
84
the InterMixture of Semiotics
99
Postmodernist and Deconstructionist Approaches in Biblical
114
Further Philosophical Evaluations and Critiques
124
Notes to Chapter III
132
the Two Testaments
148
its Demythologizing
157
The Beginnings of Christian Allegorical Interpretation
163
Notes to Chapter IV
173
FROM
179
Christ and Reflective
186
The Rise and Development of Modern Hermeneutical Theory
194
SCHLEIERMACHERS HERMENEUTICS OF UNDERSTANDING
204
Grammatical
216
Theological Ambiguities and Hermeneutical Achievements
228
PAULINE AND OTHER TEXTS IN THE LIGHT OF
237
A Hermeneutics of LifeWorld Reconstruction in Dilthey
247
A Better Understanding
253
THE HERMENEUTICS OF LIBERATION THEOLOGIES
410
THE HERMENEUTICS OF READING IN THE CONTEXT
471
A Closer Examination of Narrative Theory
479
Formalist and Structuralist Approaches to Biblical
486
Notes to Chapter XIII
508
THE HERMENEUTICS OF READING IN READERRESPONSE
515
Umberto Ecos Semiotic and TextRelated ReaderResponse
524
Further Observations on the ReaderOrientated Semiotics
535
The Major Difficulties and Limited Value of Fishs Later
546
Disruptions of Passive Reading in Existentialist Models
563
Productive and Spiritual Reading
575
Notes to Chapter XV
592
The Present Situation in Hermeneutical Approaches
604
The Transformation of Criteria of Relevance and Power
611
Notes to Chapter XVI
619
Index of authors
662
Index of subjects including index to definition of terms
673
Index of biblical references
695
Index of ancient extrabiblical sources
702
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About the author (1992)

Dr. Anthony C. Thiselton is professor of Christian theology at the University of Nottingham and Canon Theologian of Leicester Cathedral. His substantial volume on hermeneutics, The Two Horizons, received international acclaim as a standard resource for this growing subject area.