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

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Copyright: 2/1/1997

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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 anyone undertaking advanced research in hermeneutics, including teachers and students of theology and language or literary theory.

Preface and Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION: NEW HORIZONS

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1 Aims and Concerns

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2 Hermeneutics in the University, and the Bible and the Church

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3 New Horizons for Readers: Reading with Transforming Effects

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4 New Horizons in the Development of Hermeneutics

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5 The New Horizons of Fresh Argument and Transforming the Reading-Paradigm

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Notes to Introduction [n. I-3I]

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I TRANSFORMING TEXTS: PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS

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1 The Capacity of Texts to Transform Readers

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2 The Capacity of Readers and Texts to Transform Texts: Different Notions of Intertextuality

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3 Situational and Horizonal Factors in Transforming Texts

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4 Factors Arising from Semiotics, Theories of Hermeneutics, and Theories of Textuality

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Notes to Chapter I

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II WHAT IS A TEXT? SHIFTING PARADIGMS OF TEXTUALITY

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1 Are Authors Part of Texts? Introductory Issues

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2 Are Situations or Readers Part of Texts?

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3 Theological Claims about the Givenness and Actualization of Biblical Texts

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4 Further Theological Issues: Disembodied Texts or Communicative Address?

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Notes to Chapter II

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III FROM SEMIOTICS TO DECONSTRUCTION AND POST-MODERNIST THEORIES OF TEXTUALITY

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1 Code in Semiotic Theory: The Nature of Semiotic Theory

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2 Need Semiotics Lead to Deconstructionism? Different Understandings of the Implications of Semiotic Theory

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3 Roland Barthes: From Hermeneutics through Semiotics to Intralinguistic World, and to Text as Play

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4 Difficulties and Questions: the Inter-Mixture of Semiotics and World-View

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5 Jacques Derrida: an Endless Series of Signs under Erasure

103

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6 Postmodernist and Deconstructionist Approaches in Biblical Interpretation

114

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7 Further Philosophical Evaluations and Critiques of Deconstructionism, Some in Dialogue with Wittgenstein

125

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Notes to Chapter III

132

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IV PRE-MODERN BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION: THE HERMENEUTICS OF TRADITION

142

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1 Relations between Pre-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern Perspectives: some Parallels and Contrasts

142

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2 Tradition as Context of Understanding: the Two Testaments, Gnosticism and the Relevance of Irenaeus

148

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3 Varied Issues in Allegorical Interpretation: its Demythologizing Function in Pre-Christian and Philonic Interpretation

157

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4 The Beginnings of Christian Allegorical Interpretation

163

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5 Allegory or Application? The Development of Pastoral Hermeneutical Consciousness in Origen and a Contrast with Chrysostom

167

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Notes to Chapter IV

173

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V THE HERMENEUTICS OF ENQUIRY: FROM THE REFORMATION TO MODERN THEORY

179

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1 The Three Polemical Contexts which Give `Claritas Scripturae' its Currency: Epistemology, `Higher' Meanings, and Efficacy

179

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2 Questioning in the Service of Faith: Christ and Reflective Criteria in Luther

186

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3 Further Reflection on Interpretation in Calvin and in English Reformers

190

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4 The Rise and Development of Modern Hermeneutical Theory

194

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Notes to Chapter V

198

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VI SCHLEIERMACHER'S HERMENEUTICS OF UNDERSTANDING

204

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1 Schleiermacher's Most Distinctive Contribution to the Subject

204

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2 The Broader Context: Romanticism, Pietism, Culture, and Hermeneutics

209

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3 Schleiermacher's System of Hermeneutics: `Grammatical' (Shared Language) and `Psychological' (Language-Use) Axes

216

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4 Schleiermacher's System of Hermeneutics: the Hermeneutical Circle and a `Better' Understanding than the Author

221

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5 Theological Ambiguities and Hermeneutical Achievements

228

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Notes to Chapter VI

233

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VII PAULINE AND OTHER TEXTS IN THE LIGHT OF A HERMENEUTICS OF UNDERSTANDING

237

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1 Paul, Pauline Texts, and Schleiermacher's Hermeneutical Circle

237

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2 The Hermeneutical Circle and the Quest for a `Centre' of Pauline Thought

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3 A Hermeneutics of `Life-World' Reconstruction in Dilthey and Betti: `Re-living' and `Openness'

247

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4 Pauline Texts and Reconstruction: A `Better' Understanding than the Author?

253

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5 Understanding the Author of an Anonymous Text: the Epistle to the Hebrews

261

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Notes to Chapter VII

267

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VIII THE HERMENEUTICS OF SELF-INVOLVEMENT: FROM EXISTENTIALIST MODELS TO SPEECH-ACT THEORY

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1 Reader-Involvement, Address, and States of Affairs: The Contrasting Assumptions of Existentialist Hermeneutics and `the Logic of Self-Involvement' in Austin and Evans

272

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2 The Hermeneutics of the Earlier Heidegger and Bultmann's Approach to Paul

279

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3 Christological Texts in Paul and in the Synoptic Gospels in the Light of Speech-Act Theory in Austin, Evans, Searle, and du Plessis

283

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4 Illocutionary Acts in J.R. Searle and F. Recanati: Directions of Fit between Words and the World

291

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5 The `World-to-Word Fit' of a Hermeneutic of Promise: Types of Illocutions; the Work of Christ in Paul; Promise in the Old Testament

298

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Notes to Chapter VIII

307

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IX THE HERMENEUTICS OF METACRITICISM AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE

313

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1 The Context of the Paradigm-shift to Radical Metacritical Hermeneutics and the Nature of Gadamer's Hermeneutics

313

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2 Gadamer's Claim for `the Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem' and the Development of Critiques of Language and of Knowledge

322

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3 Pannenberg's Metacritical Unifying of a Hermeneutics of Universal History with the Scientific Status of Theology

331

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Notes to Chapter IX

338

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X THE HERMENEUTICS OF SUSPICION AND RETRIEVAL: PAUL RICOEUR'S HERMENEUTICAL THEORY

344

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1 Human Fallibility, Hermeneutical Suspicion, and Freudian Psychoanalysis: Idols, Dreams, and Symbols

344

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2 Paul Ricoeur on Metaphor and Narrative: Possibility, Time, and Transformation

351

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3 Metacriticism, Fiction, History, and Truth: Some Assessments Largely in the Light of Speech-Act Theory

358

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4 Some Consequences for Ricoeur's Approach to Biblical Hermeneutics

368

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Notes to Chapter X

373

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XI THE HERMENEUTICS OF SOCIO-CRITICAL THEORY: ITS RELATION TO SOCIO-PRAGMATIC HERMENEUTICS AND TO LIBERATION THEOLOGIES

379

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1 The Nature of Socio-Critical Hermeneutics: Habermas on Hermeneutics, Knowledge, Interest, and an Emancipatory Critique

379

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2 Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action in the Double Context of Social Theory in Marx, Weber and Parsons, and Speech-Act Theory: Habermas and Biblical Interpretation

385

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3 Richard Rorty's Socio-Pragmatic Contextualism vs. Karl-Otto Apel's Cognitive Anthropology as Transcendental Metacritique

393

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Notes to Chapter XI

405

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XII THE HERMENEUTICS OF LIBERATION THEOLOGIES AND FEMINIST THEOLOGIES: SOCIO-CRITICAL AND SOCIO-PRAGMATIC STRANDS

411

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1 The Major Concerns, Development, and Dual Character of Latin American Liberation Hermeneutics

411

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2 Parallels and Contrasts with Black Hermeneutics: the Varied Approaches of Cone, Boesak, Goba, Mosala, and other Writers

419

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3 Further Examples of Marxist or `Materialist' Readings: Belo and Clevenot

427

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4 The Nature and Development of Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics

430

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5 The Use of Socio-Critical and Socio-Pragmatic Methods and Epistemologies in Feminist Hermeneutics: Ruether, Fiorenza, Tolbert, and other Writers

439

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6 Further Complexities in Feminist Hermeneutics: Parallels between Demythologizing and Depatriarchalizing

452

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Notes to Chapter XII

463

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XIII THE HERMENEUTICS OF READING IN THE CONTEXT OF LITERARY THEORY

471

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1 Problematic and Productive Aspects of the Literary Approach and the Legacy of the New Criticism

471

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2 A Closer Examination of Narrative Theory

479

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3 Formalist and Structuralist Approaches to Biblical Narrative Texts

486

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4 From Post-Structuralism to Semiotic Theories of Reading: Intertextuality and the Paradigm-Shift to `Reading'

495

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5 The Paradigm of `Reading' in Biblical Studies and Intertextuality in Biblical Interpretation

499

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Notes to Chapter XIII

508

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XIV THE HERMENEUTICS OF READING IN READER-RESPONSE THEORIES OF LITERARY MEANING

516

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1 Wolfgang Iser's Theory of Reader-Interaction and its Utilization in Biblical Studies

516

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2 Umberto Eco's Semiotic and Text-Related Reader-Response Theories and their Implications for Biblical Texts

524

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3 Differences among More Radical Reader-Response Theories: The Psychoanalytical Approach of Holland and the Socio-Political Approach of Bleich

529

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4 Further Observations on the Reader-Orientated Semiotics of Culler and on the Social Pragmatism of Fish

534

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5 What Fish's Counterarguments Overlook about Language: Fish and Wittgenstein

540

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6 The Major Difficulties and Limited Value of Fish's Later Theory for Biblical Studies and for Theology

546

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Notes to Chapter XIV

550

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XV THE HERMENEUTICS OF PASTORAL THEOLOGY: (I) TEN WAYS OF READING TEXTS IN RELATION TO VARIED READING-SITUATIONS

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1 Life-Worlds, Intentional Directedness, and Enquiring Reading in Reconstructionist Models

558

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2 Disruptions of Passive Reading in Existentialist Models

563

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3 Drawing Readers into Biblical Narrative-Worlds: Four Theories of Narrative in Relation to Reading-Situations

566

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4 Biblical Symbols: Productive and Spiritual Reading, with Questions partly from Freud and Jung for Pastoral Theology

575

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5 Models Five through on Eight on Variable Reader-Effects: Semiotic Productivity, Reader-Response, Socio-Pragmatic Contextualization, and Deconstruction

582

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Notes to Chapter XV

592

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XVI THE HERMENEUTICS OF PASTORAL THEOLOGY: (2) FURTHER READING-SITUATIONS, PLURALISM, AND `BELIEVING' READING

597

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1 Some Implications of Speech-Act Models for Enquiring and Believing Reading (Ninth Model); and the Socio-Critical Quest to Transcend Instrumental Uses of Texts (Tenth Model)

597

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2 `The Present Situation' in Hermeneutical Approaches to Pastoral Theology and to Social Science: Criteria of Relevance in Alfred Schutz and the Critique of the Cross

604

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3 The Transformation of Criteria of Relevance and Power in the New Horizons of the Cross and Resurrection: Towards a New Understanding of Hermeneutical Pluralism

611

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Notes to Chapter XVI

619

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Bibliography

621

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Index of authors

662

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Index of subjects (including index to definition of terms)

673

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Index of biblical references

695

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Index of ancient extra-biblical sources

702

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