Is there a meaning in this text? : the Bible, the reader, and the morality of literary knowledge /
"Is there a meaning in the Bible, or is meaning rather a matter of who is reading or of how one reads? Does Christian doctrine have anything to contribute to debates about interpretation, literary theory, and postmodernity? These are questions of crucial importance for contemporary biblical stu...
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Grand Rapids, Mich. :
Zondervan,
©1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Theology and Literary Theory. 1. Faith Seeking Textual Understanding
- Pt. 1. Undoing Interpretation: Authority, Allegory, Anarchy. 2. Undoing the Author: Authority and Intentionality. 3. Undoing the Book: Textuality and Indeterminacy. 4. Undoing the Reader: Contextuality and Ideology
- Pt. 2. Redoing Interpretation: Agency, Action, Affect. 5. Resurrecting the Author: Meaning As Communicative Action. 6. Redeeming the Text: The Rationality of Literary Acts. 7. Reforming the Reader: Interpretive Virtue, Spirituality, and Communicative Efficacy. Conclusion: A Hermeneutics of the Cross. 8. A Hermeneutics of Humility and Conviction.