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Theology, Hermeneutics and Imagination: The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity

The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity

by Garrett Green (Connecticut College)

  • Hardback
  • 244 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

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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.
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  • Author

    Garrett Green (Connecticut College)

  • Book Format

    hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 1999

  • Weight

    459g

  • Page Count

    244

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521650489

  • ISBN-10

    0521650488

  • Eden Code

    12234

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