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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is hermeneutics? | |
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| The hermeneutic circle | |
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| The place of hermeneutics | |
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| The approach of this book | |
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| Hermeneutics in Antiquity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Language and meaning | |
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| Graeco-Roman antiquity | |
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| Allegorical interpretation | |
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| Historical grammatical interpretation | |
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| Judaism | |
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| A developing tradition | |
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| Translations (Targumim) | |
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| Typology | |
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| Midrash | |
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| Pesharim | |
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| Allegorical interpretation | |
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| Christianity | |
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| New Testament | |
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| The Apologists | |
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| Origen | |
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| The Antiochene School | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Augustine of Hippo | |
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| Introduction and biography | |
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| Sources | |
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| Words and signs | |
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| Memory | |
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| Using signs | |
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| The inner word in the spoken word | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Middle Ages | |
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| Jerome's translation | |
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| Medieval interpretation | |
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| Ways of speaking of God | |
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| Equivocity | |
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| Analogy | |
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| Univocity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Humanism and the Reformation | |
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| Humanism | |
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| Ad fontes! | |
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| Two literal senses of Scripture | |
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| Erasmus | |
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| Reformation | |
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| Sola scriptura | |
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| The key to the Scriptures | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Rationalism and Enlightenment | |
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| A new context | |
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| Enlightenment | |
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| Orthodoxy | |
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| Scottish common-sense philosophy and modern fundamentalism | |
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| Common sense | |
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| Common sense, Bacon and fundamentalism | |
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| Pietism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| FriedrichSchleiermacher: Hermeneutics as the Art of Understanding | |
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| Introduction and biography | |
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| Sources | |
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| Feeling and language | |
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| The art of understanding | |
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| Grammatical and psychological interpretation | |
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| Grammatical interpretation | |
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| Psychological interpretation | |
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| Grammatical and psychological | |
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| Historical criticism | |
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| The hermeneutic circle | |
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| Outlook: Perception, feeling and language | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Historicism | |
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| The text as source for the study of history: Dilthey and the history of religion school | |
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| Wilhelm Dilthey: hermeneutics as the foundation of the human sciences | |
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| History of religion school | |
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| Hermeneutics of suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche and Freud | |
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| Karl Marx | |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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| Sigmund Freud | |
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| Existentialism I: Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Bultmann and Heidegger: Sources | |
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| Existentialism | |
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| Heidegger | |
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| Understanding | |
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| State-of-mind | |
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| Discourse and language | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| Bultmann | |
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| Human existence | |
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| The word of God | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Existentialism II: The Path to Language | |
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| Understanding through language | |
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| Heidegger in his later career | |
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| Gelaut der Stille (sound of silence) and Lauten des Wortes (sounding of the word) | |
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| Unterschied (dif-ference) | |
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| Ereignis (event/appropriation) | |
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| Hans-Georg Gadamer | |
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| The fusion of horizons | |
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| An uncritical hermeneutic? | |
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| Paul Ricoeur | |
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| Sources and literature | |
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| Critical method | |
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| The surplus of meaning | |
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| The conflict of interpretations | |
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| Action and text | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Hermeneutical theology | |
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| The new hermeneutics | |
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| Ernst Fuchs and the New Quest for the historical Jesus | |
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| Gerhard Ebeling | |
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| The Universality of the Sign I: Open Sign Systems | |
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| Structuralism | |
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| Ferdinand de Saussure: the founder of structuralism | |
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| Claude Levi-Strauss: structuralist interpretation of myth | |
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| Jacques Lacan: structuralist psychoanalysis | |
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| Post-structuralism and deconstruction | |
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| Post-structuralism | |
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| Deconstruction | |
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| Postmodern theology | |
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| The Universality of the Sign II: Closed Sign Systems | |
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| Karl Barth | |
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| Hermeneutics and theology: speaking of God | |
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| Analogy of faith | |
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| Biblical hermeneutics | |
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| Canonical approaches and new biblical theology | |
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| Brevard Childs | |
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| Literary criticism | |
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| Background | |
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| Principles | |
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| Critical Theory, Feminism and Postcolonialism | |
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| Critical Theory | |
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| The Frankfurt School | |
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| Jurgen Habermas | |
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| The debate with Gadamer | |
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| Critical remarks | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Feminist interpretation | |
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| The construction of gender | |
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| The atomization of feminism | |
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| Postcolonialism | |
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| Towards a Hermeneutical Theology | |
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| Preliminary considerations | |
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| Overcoming naive realism | |
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| Theological foundations | |
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| A hermeneutical theology | |
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| A linguistically constituted experience | |
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| Critical interpretation of texts | |
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| Speaking within the theologian's context | |
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| The nature of theological language | |
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| Dogmatic language | |
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| Narrative, praise and promise | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The inner word | |
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| The significance of hermeneutics | |
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| Index of Subjects | |
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| Index of Names | |