The fall of interpretation : philosophical foundations for a creational hermeneutic / James K.A. Smith.
2000
BD241 .S595 2000 (Mapit)
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Title
The fall of interpretation : philosophical foundations for a creational hermeneutic / James K.A. Smith.
Author
Smith, James K. A., 1970-
ISBN
9780830815746 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0830815740 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0830815740 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press , c2000.
Language
English
Description
228 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
BD241 .S595 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
230.01
Summary
"James K. A. Smith surveys contemporary hermeneutical discussion, identifying three traditions and how they understand interpretation: a present immediacy model, an eschatological immediacy model and a violent mediation model. Questioning the foundational assumption that these models share, Smith draws on and reworks Augustine's biblical understanding of the goodness of creation to propose a creational-pneumatic model of hermeneutics. The result is an understanding of the status of interpretation as a 'creational task', a task which is constitutive of finitude and thus not a 'labor' to be escaped or overcome. --From publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-218) and indexes.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Interpretation & the Fall
PART ONE: The fallenness of Hermeneutics
Paradise regained
Through a mirror darkly
PART TWO: A hermeneutics of fallenness
Falling into the garden
Edenic violence
PART THREE: Toward a creational hermeneutic
Interpreting the Fall
Interpretation in Eden.
PART ONE: The fallenness of Hermeneutics
Paradise regained
Through a mirror darkly
PART TWO: A hermeneutics of fallenness
Falling into the garden
Edenic violence
PART THREE: Toward a creational hermeneutic
Interpreting the Fall
Interpretation in Eden.