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Publisher
Zondervan
ISBN-10
0310211565
ISBN-13
9780310211563
eBay Product ID (ePID)
486408
Product Key Features
Book Title
Is there Meaning in this Text : the Bibles, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Christian Theology / General, General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Literary Criticism, Religion
Format
Hardcover
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0.2 in
Item Weight
25.8 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
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0.6 in
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Trade
LCCN
98-012627
Dewey Edition
21
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
220.6/01
Table Of Content
ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Theology and Literary Theory1. Faith Seeking Textual UnderstandingThree parables on reading and reflectionPhilosophy and literary theory: from Plato to postmodernityMeaning and interpretation: the morality of literary knowledgeThe three ages of criticism: the plan of the bookAugustinian hermeneuticsPart One: Undoing Interpretation: Authority, Allegory, Anarchy2. Undoing the Author: Authority and IntentionalityAuthorship and authority: the birth of the "author"Undoing the author's authorityUndoing the author's intentionHas the Bible lost its voice?3. Undoing the Book: Textuality and IndeterminacyDemeaning meaning?What is a text?Meaning in Antioch and AlexandriaTextual indeterminacy: the rule of metaphorInterpretive agnosticism?4. Undoing the Reader: Contextuality and IdeologyThe birth of the readerThe aims of reading: literary knowledge and human interestsInterpretive violencePower reading and the politics of canonUndoing biblical ideologyThe ethics of undoing: the "new morality" of knowledgePart Two: Redoing Interpretation: Agency, Action, Affect5. Resurrecting the Author: Meaning As Communicative ActionThe physics of promising: from codes to communionDissenting voices: speech rehabilitationThe "what" of meaning: texts as communicative actsThe "who" of meaning: authors as communicative agentsCommunicative action and the author's intentionMeaning and significance redivivus6. Redeeming the Text: The Rationality of Literary ActsBelief in meaning as properly basic: the nature of literary knowledgeThe conflict of interpretations: the problem of literary knowledgeHow to describe communicative acts: the norm of literary knowledgeGenre and communicative rationality: the method of literary knowledge7. Reforming the Reader: Interpretive Virtue, Spirituality, and Communicative EfficacyThe reader as user, critic, and followerIs exegesis without ideology possible?Reader response and reader responsibilityUnderstanding and overstandingThe Spirit of understanding: discerning and doing the WordThe vocation of the reader: interpretation as discipleshipConclusion: A Hermeneutics of the Cross8. A Hermeneutics of Humility and ConvictionTrinitarian hermeneuticsThe verbal icon and the authorial faceHermeneutic humility and literary knowledgeBibliographyName IndexSubject Index
Synopsis
Written by a brilliant young author, this book develops an evangelical theological hermeneutic that sees meaning in the text of Scripture., Kevin Vanhoozer's Is There a Meaning in This Text? Has established itself as the premier treatment of biblical hermeneutics, a significant contribution that will be of interest to readers in numerous fields. This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author and a foreword by Craig L. Blomberg.
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BS476.V34 1998
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