TY - BOOK AU - Thiselton,Anthony C. TI - New horizons in hermeneutics SN - 0310515904 AV - BD 241 .T45 PY - 1992/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - Zondervan Pub. House KW - Bible KW - Hermeneutics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [621]-661) and indexes; Contents: Introduction: New horizons Aims and concerns Hermeneutics in the university, and the Bible and the church New horizons for readers: reading with transforming effects New horizons in the development of hermeneutics The new horizons of fresh argument and transforming the reading-paradigm I. Transforming texts: Preliminary observations The capacity of texts to transform readers The capacity of readers and texts to transform texts: different notions of intertextuality Situational and horizontal factors in transforming texts Factors arising from semiotics, theories of hermeneutics, and theories of textuality II. What is a text? Shifting paradigms of textuality Are authors part of texts? Introductory issues Are situations or readers part of texts? Theological claims about the givenness and actualization of biblical texts Further theological issues: disembodied texts or communicative address? III. From semiotics to deconstruction and post-modernist theories of textuality Code in semiotic theory: the nature of semiotic theory Need semiotics lead to deconstructionism? Different understandings of the implications of semiotic theory Roland Barthes: From hermeneutics through semiotics to intralinguistic world, and to text as play Difficulties and questions: the inter-mixture of semiotics and world-view Jacques Derrida: an endless series of signs under erasure Postmodernist and deconstructionist approaches in biblical interpretation Further philosophical evaluations and critiques of deconstructionism, some in dialogue with Wittgenstein IV. Pre-modern biblical interpretation: the hermeneutics of tradition Relations between pre-modern, modern and post-modern perspectives: some parallels and contrasts Tradition as context of understanding; the two Testaments, Gnosticism and the relevance of Irenaeus Varied issues in allegorical interpretation: its demythologizing function in pre-Christian and philonic interpretation The beginnings of Christian allegorical interpretation Allegory or application? The development of pastoral hermeneutical consciousness in Origen and a contrast with Chrysostom. V. The hermeneutics of enquiry: From the Reformation to modern theory The three polemical contexts which give 'Claritas Scripturae' its currency: epistemology, 'higher' meanings, and efficacy Questioning in the service of faith: Christ and reflective criteria in Luther Further reflection on interpretation in Calvin and in English Reformers The rise and development of modern hermeneutical theory VI. Schleiermacher's hermeneutics of understanding Schleiermacher's most distinctive contribution to the subject The broader context: Romanticism, Pietism, culture, and hermeneutics Schleiermacher's system of hermeneutics: 'Grammatical' (shared language) and 'psychological' (language-use) axes Schleiermacher's system of hermeneutics: the hermeneutical circle and a 'better' understanding than the author Theological ambiguities and hermeneutical achievements. VII. Pauline and other texts in the light of a hermeneutics of understanding Paul, Pauline texts, and Schleiermacher's hermeneutical circle The hermeneutical circle and the quest for a 'centre' of Pauline thought A hermeneutics of 'life-world' reconstruction in Dilthey and Betti: 'Re-living' and 'openness' Pauline texts and reconstruction: A 'better' understanding than the author? Understanding the author of an anonymous text: the Epistle to the Hebrews VIII: The hermeneutics of self-involvement: From existentialist models to speech-act theory Reader-involvement, address, and states of affairs: The contrasting assumptions of existentialist hermeneutics and 'the logic of self-involvement' in Austin and Evans The hermeneutics of the earlier Heidegger and Bultmann's approach to Paul Christological texts in Paul and in the Synoptic Gospels in the light of speech-act theory in Austin, Evans, Searle, and du Plessis Illocutionary acts in J.R. Searle and F. Recanati: direction of fit between words and the world The 'world-to-word fit' of a hermeneutic of promise: Types of illocutions; the work of Christ in Paul; promise in the Old Testament. IX. The hermeneutics of metacriticism and the foundations of knowledge The context of the paradigm-shift to radical metacritical hermeneutics and the nature of Gadamer's hermeneutics Gadamer's claim for 'the universality of the hermeneutical problem' and the development of critiques of language and of knowledge Pannenberg's metacritical unifying of a hermeneutics of universal history with the scientific status of theology X. The hermeneutics of suspicion and retrieval: Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutical theory Human fallibility, hermeneutical suspicion, and Freudian psychoanalysis: Idols, dreams, and symbols Paul Ricoeur on metaphor and narrative: Possibility, time, and transformation Metacriticism, fiction, history, and truth: Some assessments largely in the light of speech-act theory Some consequences for Ricoeur's approach to biblical hermeneutics. XI. The hermeneutics of socio-critical theory: Its relation to socio-pragmatic hermeneutics and to liberation theologies The nature of socio-critical hermeneutics: Habermas on hermeneutics, knowledge, interest, and an emancipatory critique 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 Richard Rorty's socio-pragmatic contextualism vs. Karl-Otto Apel's cognitive anthropology as transcendental metacritique XII. The hermeneutis of liberation theologies and feminist theologies: socio-critical and socio-pragmatic strands The major concerns, development, and dual character of Latin American Liberation hermeneutics Parallels and contrasts with black hermeneutics: the varied approaches of Cone, Boesak, Goba, Mosala, and other writers Further examples of Marxist or 'materialist' readings: Belo and Clevenot The nature and development of feminist biblical hermeneutics The use of socio-critical and socio-pragmatic methods and epistemologies in feminist hermeneutics: Ruether, Fiorenza, Tolbert, and other writers Further complexities in feminist hermeneutics: Parallels between demythologizing and depatriarchializing. XIII. The hermeneutics of reading in the context of literary theory Problematic and productive aspects of the literary approach and the legacy of the new criticism A closer examination of narrative theory Formalist and structuralist approaches to biblical narrative texts From post-structuralism to Semiotic theories of reading: Intertextuality and the paradigm-shift to 'reading' The paradigm of 'reading' in biblical studies and intertextuality in biblical interpretation XIV. The hermeneutics of reading in reader-response theories of literary meaning Wolfgang Iser's theory of reader-interaction and its utilization in biblical studies Umberto Eco's Semiotic and text-related reader-response theories and their implications for biblical texts Differences among more radical reader-response theories: The psychoanalytical approach of Holland and the socio-political approach of Bleich Further observations on the reader-orientated Semiotics of Culler and on the social pragmatism of Fish What Fish's counterarguments overlook about language: Fish and Wittgenstein The major difficulties and limited value of Fish's later theory of biblical studies and for theology. XV. The hermeneutics of pastoral theology: (1) Ten ways of reading texts in relation to varied reading-situations Life-worlds, intentional directedness, and enquiring reading in reconstructionist models Disruptions of passive reading in existentialist models Drawing readers into biblical narrative-worlds: Four theories of narrative in relation to reading-situations Biblical symbols: Productive and spiritual reading, with questions partly from Freud and Jung for pastoral theology Models five through to eight on variable reader-effects: Semiotic productivity, reader-response, socio-pragmatic contextualization, and deconstruction XVI. The hermeneutics of pastoral theology: (2) Further reading-situations, pluralism, and 'believing' reading 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) 'The present situation' in hermeneutical approaches pastoral theology and to social science: criteria of relevance in Alfred Schutz and the critique of the cross The transformation of criteria of relevance and power in the new horizons of the cross and resurrection: Towards a new understanding of hermeneutical pluralism ER -