Hermeneutics: An IntroductionAnthony Thiselton here brings together his encyclopedic knowledge of hermeneutics and his nearly four decades of teaching on the subject to provide a splendid interdisciplinary textbook. After a thorough historical overview of hermeneutics, Thiselton moves into modern times with extensive analysis of scholarship from the mid-twentieth century, including liberation and feminist theologies, reader-response and reception theory, and postmodernism. No other text on hermeneutics covers the range of writers and subjects discussed in Thiselton s Hermeneutics. |
Contents
Ontological Hermeneutics | 4 |
Differences between Philosophical Hermeneutics | 7 |
Preliminary and Provisional Understanding | 13 |
The Impact of Literary Theory on Hermeneutics | 24 |
An Example of Hermeneutical Methods The Parables of Jesus | 35 |
A Legacy of Perennial Questions from the Ancient World | 60 |
The New Testament and the Second Century | 76 |
From the Third to the Thirteenth Centuries | 100 |
Implications for Ethics Other Later Works | 244 |
Text Authors Intention and Creativity | 248 |
Recommended Initial Reading | 254 |
The Hermeneutics of Liberation Theologies and Postcolonial Hermeneutics | 255 |
Gustavo Gutiérrez and the Birth of Liberation Theology | 260 |
Base Communities and José Porfirio Miranda in the 1970s | 263 |
Juan Luis Segundo J Severino Croatto Leonardo Boff and Others | 267 |
Postcolonial Hermeneutics from the 1980s to the Present | 271 |
Reform the Enlightenment and the Rise of Biblical Criticism | 124 |
Schleiermacher and Dilthey | 148 |
CONTENTS | 155 |
Rudolf Bultmann and Demythologizing the New Testament | 166 |
Some MidTwentiethCentury Approaches Barth the | 185 |
HansGeorg Gadamers Hermeneutics | 206 |
Language with Assessments | 222 |
Further Assessments of the Three Parts of Truth and Method | 225 |
Recommended Initial Reading | 227 |
The Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur | 228 |
The Interpretation of Freud The Conflict of Interpretations and Metaphor | 232 |
Time and Narrative | 236 |
The Identity of the Self Otherness and Narrative | 242 |
A Further Assessment and Evaluation | 276 |
Recommended Initial Reading | 277 |
Feminist and Womanist Hermeneutics | 279 |
The Fragmentation of the Second Wave | 294 |
A Provisional Assessment of Feminist Hermeneutics | 301 |
Postmodernism and Hermeneutics | 327 |
Some Concluding Comments | 349 |
Selective Bibliography | 356 |
Index of Names | 381 |
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Common terms and phrases
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