01936    a2200229   4500003000600000008004100006020001900047040001900066050002200085100003200107245005300139260003000192300002800222336002600250337002800276338002700304490001900331505051600350520077900866630004401645650001701689pucpr120830s        xxu||||gr|||| 00| 0 spa d  a978-0334029014  aEVLGbspaerda  aBS 476b.J45 2007  aJensen, Alexander S.d1968-  aTheological hermeneutics /bAlexander S. Jensen.  bSCM Pressc©2007aLondon  axiv, 237 pages ;b23 cm  2rdacontentatextbtxt  2rdamediaaunmediatedbn  2rdacarrieravolumebnc  aSCM core texts  aHermeneutics in antiquity -- Augustine of Hippo -- The Middle Ages -- Humanism and the Reformation -- Rationalism and Enlightenment -- Friedrich Schleiermacher: hermeneutics as the art of understanding -- Historicism -- Existentialism I: Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann -- Existentialism II: the path to language -- The universality of the sign I: open sign systems -- The universality of the sign II: closed sign systems -- Critical theory, feminism and postcolonialism -- Towards a hermeneutical theology  aHermeneutics is the theory of understanding, which becomes relevant whenever understanding becomes problematic. Religious and other authoritative texts do not make sense any more, in a changing context, and so reflection on the way in which they are understood becomes necessary. The SCM Core Text: Theological Hermeneutics provides a historical outline of the problem of understanding from the beginnings to the present, focusing on key thinkers and their theological and philosophical contexts. It follows the development of hermeneutics from the theory of the interpretation of texts to that of the interpretation of existence. Following the hermeneutic school, it presents the hermeneutical problem as the foundational theological and philosophical question. -Back cover 0aBible.xCriticism, interpretation, etc. 0aHermeneutics