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9781597529976

The Comical Doctrine: An Epistemology of New Testament Hermeneutics

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    9781597529976

  • ISBN10:

    1597529974

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-10-31
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

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Summary

In this wide-ranging study Rosalind Selby explores the hermeneutical implications of a Barthian epistemology in which 'given-ness' (of knowledge, talk of God and Scripture, and the Church) is paramount. From this she seeks to develop a "hermeneutics of service" that challenges both liberal and fundamentalist approaches to theological language and biblical interpretation.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. xi
Acknowledgementsp. xiii
Abbreviationsp. xv
Introductionp. 1
Questions of Truth and Epistemologyp. 11
Introductory Backgroundp. 11
The End of Objectivity - The Epistemological Dimensionp. 18
The End of Objectivity - The Linguistic Dimensionp. 24
The Problem of Relativismp. 27
Responses to Relativismp. 32
The Mode of Knowing and the 'Object' Knownp. 40
Conclusionsp. 47
Reference and Textp. 53
How can the Creature Refer to the Creator?p. 53
Analogyp. 55
Metaphorp. 59
Can a Text Refer?p. 65
Textuality - Inscribed and Wrought, a Field of Play?p. 66
Reference and Writingp. 69
Further Textual Analogiesp. 76
Types of Referencep. 81
Referential Fallaciesp. 89
Narrative Readings of St. Mark's Gospelp. 89
The Cultural-Linguistic Model of George Lindbeckp. 97
Conclusionsp. 101
Community and Validityp. 107
Which Community?p. 107
Readers and Reading Consideredp. 114
The Possibility of Critiquep. 136
Conclusions - Closure, Abundance and Controlp. 157
The Question of Historical Knowledgep. 165
Philosophies of Historyp. 165
Historical and Sociological Approaches to the Gospels - and Further Epistemological Considerationsp. 178
What's in a "Quest"?p. 187
Beginning with the Resurrectionp. 201
Conclusionsp. 212
Conclusionsp. 221
General Conclusions and a Discussion of St. Mark's Account of the Transfigurationp. 221
Implications of the Study for an Ethics of Reading Appropriate to the Gospelp. 239
Appendices
Bibliographical Details of the Habermas/Gadamer Debatep. 249
Intra- and Inter-Textuality in the Narrative of the Transfiguration - Mark 9:2-8p. 251
Bibliographyp. 257
Author Indexp. 275
Scripture Indexp. 279
Subject Indexp. 281
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