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

Name: New Horizons in Hermeneutics The Theory and Practice of Transforming Biblical Reading
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ISBN: 9780310217626

ISBN-10: 0310217628

ISBN-13: 9780310217626

Edition: 1997

Authors: Anthony C. Thiselton

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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…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 11/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 720
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgements


Introduction: New Horizons



Transforming Texts: Preliminary Observations



What is a Text? Shifting Paradigms of Textuality



From Semiotics to Deconstruction and Post-Modernist Theories of Textuality



Pre-Modern Biblical Interpretation: The Hermeneutics of Tradition



The Hermeneutics of Enquiry: From the Reformation to Modern Theory



Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics of Understanding



Pauline and Other Texts in the Light of a Hermeneutics of Understanding



The Hermeneutics of Self-Involvement: From Existentialist Models to Speech-Act Theory



The Hermeneutics of Metacriticism and the Foundations of Knowledge



The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Retrieval: Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutical Theory



The Hermeneutics of Socio-Critical Theory: Its Relation to Socio-Pragmatic Hermeneutics and to Liberation Theologies



The Hermeneutics of Liberation Theologies and Feminist Theologies: Socio-Critical and Socio-Pragmatic Strands



The Hermeneutics of Reading in the Context of Literary Theory



The Hermeneutics of Reading in Reader-Response Theories of Literary Meaning



The Hermeneutics of Pastoral Theology: (1) Ten ways of Reading Texts in Relation to Varied Reading-Situations



The Hermeneutics of Pastoral Theology: (2) Further Reading-Situations, Pluralism, and 'Believing' Reading


Bibliography


Index of authors


Index of subjects (including index to definition of terms)


Index of biblical references


Index of ancient extra-biblical sources