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| Foreword | |
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| Preface to the Anniversary Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Theology and Literary Theory | |
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| Faith Seeking Textual Understanding | |
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| Three parables on reading and reflection | |
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| Philosophy and literary theory: from Plato to postmodernity | |
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| Meaning and interpretation: the morality of literary knowledge | |
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| The three ages of criticism: the plan of the book | |
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| Augustinian hermeneutics | |
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| Undoing Interpretation: Authority, Allegory, Anarchy | |
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| Undoing the Author: Authority and Intentionality | |
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| Authorship and authority: the birth of the "author" | |
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| Undoing the author's authority | |
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| Undoing the author's intention | |
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| Has the Bible lost its voice? | |
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| Undoing the Book: Textuality and Indeterminacy | |
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| Demeaning meaning? | |
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| What is a text? | |
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| Meaning in Antioch and Alexandria | |
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| Textual indeterminacy: the rule of metaphor | |
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| Interpretive agnosticism? | |
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| Undoing the Reader: Contextuality and Ideology | |
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| The birth of the reader | |
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| The aims of reading: literary knowledge and human interests | |
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| Interpretive violence | |
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| Power reading and the politics of canon | |
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| Undoing biblical ideology | |
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| The ethics of undoing: the "new morality" of knowledge | |
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| Redoing Interpretation: Agency, Action, Affect | |
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| Resurrecting the Author: Meaning As Communicative Action | |
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| The physics of promising: from codes to communion | |
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| Dissenting voices: speech rehabilitation | |
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| The "what" of meaning: texts as communicative acts | |
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| The "who" of meaning: authors as communicative agents | |
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| Communicative action and the author's intention | |
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| Meaning and significance redivivus | |
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| Redeeming the Text: The Rationality of Literary Acts | |
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| Belief in meaning as properly basic: the nature of literary knowledge | |
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| The conflict of interpretations: the problem of literary knowledge | |
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| How to describe communicative acts: the norm of literary knowledge | |
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| Genre and communicative rationality: the method of literary knowledge | |
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| Reforming the Reader: Interpretive Virtue, Spirituality, and Communicative Efficacy | |
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| The reader as user, critic, and follower | |
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| Is exegesis without ideology possible? | |
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| Reader response and reader responsibility | |
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| Understanding and overstanding | |
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| The Spirit of understanding: discerning and doing the Word | |
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| The vocation of the reader: interpretation as discipleship | |
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| Conclusion: A Hermeneutics of the Cross | |
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| A Hermeneutics of Humility and Conviction | |
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| Trinitarian hermeneutics | |
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| The verbal icon and the authorial face | |
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| Hermeneutic humility and literary knowledge | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |