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SKU (ISBN): 9780521650489
ISBN10: 0521650488
Garrett Green
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: January 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book explores the contemporary crisis of biblical interpretation by examining modern and postmodern forms of the ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’. Garrett Green looks at several thinkers who played key roles in creating a radically suspicious reading of the Bible. After Kant, Hamann and Feuerbach comes Nietzsche, who marked the turn from modern to postmodern suspicion. Green argues that similarities between Derrida’s deconstruction and Barth’s theology of signs show that postmodern suspicion ought not to be viewed simply as a threat to theology but as a secular counterpart to its own hermeneutical insights. When theology attends to its proper task of describing the grammar of scriptural imagination, it discovers a source of suspicion more radical than the secular, the hermeneutical expression of God’s gracious judgement. Green concludes that Christians are committed to the hermeneutical imperative, the never-ending struggle for the meaning of scripture in the hopeful insecurity of the faithful imagination.
SKU (ISBN): 9780521650489
ISBN10: 0521650488
Garrett Green
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: January 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print On Demand Product
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