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This book introduces theological hermeneutics by giving a historical account of the development of hermeneutical thinking. It defines hermeneutics as the analysis of the obstacles to understanding. The history of hermeneutical thinking and responses to obstacles is told here, beginning with the allegorical interpretation of myths in Hellenism through to the contemporary view of the hermeneutical problem as universal. Following the opening chapters on the history of hermeneutical thought, the book presents an overview of the various contemporary hermeneutical schools of thought, and shows their rooted-ness in different parts of the hermeneutical tradition. The focus is clearly on biblical interpretation however it does also take account of developments outside the field of theology, as they influence the theological reflection on the hermeneutical problem. The questions raised and the possible answers suggested in this volume will be of interest to students of other disciplines, such as philosophy and literature.

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• Acknowledgements(p. xiii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• What is hermeneutics?(p. 2)
• The hermeneutic circle(p. 4)
• The place of hermeneutics(p. 5)
• The approach of this book(p. 6)
• 1 Hermeneutics in Antiquity(p. 9)
• Introduction(p. 9)
• Language and meaning(p. 10)
• Graeco-Roman antiquity(p. 11)
• Allegorical interpretation(p. 11)
• Historical grammatical interpretation(p. 13)
• Judaism(p. 13)
• A developing tradition(p. 14)
• Translations (Targumim)(p. 15)
• Typology(p. 15)
• Midrash(p. 16)
• Pesharim(p. 18)
• Allegorical interpretation(p. 19)
• Christianity(p. 23)
• New Testament(p. 23)
• The Apologists(p. 25)
• Origen(p. 27)
• The Antiochene School(p. 30)
• Conclusion(p. 31)
• 2 Augustine of Hippo(p. 38)
• Introduction and biography(p. 38)
• Sources(p. 39)
• Words and signs(p. 40)
• Memory(p. 41)
• Using signs(p. 42)
• The inner word in the spoken word(p. 45)
• Conclusion(p. 48)
• 3 The Middle Ages(p. 51)
• Jerome's translation(p. 51)
• Medieval interpretation(p. 52)
• Ways of speaking of God(p. 54)
• Equivocity(p. 54)
• Analogy(p. 58)
• Univocity(p. 60)
• Conclusion(p. 61)
• 4 Humanism and the Reformation(p. 64)
• Humanism(p. 64)
• Ad fontes!(p. 64)
• Two literal senses of Scripture(p. 65)
• Erasmus(p. 66)
• Reformation(p. 67)
• Sola scriptura(p. 67)
• The key to the Scriptures(p. 70)
• Conclusion(p. 74)
• 5 Rationalism and Enlightenment(p. 78)
• A new context(p. 78)
• Enlightenment(p. 79)
• Orthodoxy(p. 81)
• Scottish common-sense philosophy and modern fundamentalism(p. 82)
• Common sense(p. 82)
• Common sense, Bacon and fundamentalism(p. 84)
• Pietism(p. 86)
• Conclusion(p. 87)
• 6 FriedrichSchleiermacher: Hermeneutics as the Art of Understanding(p. 90)
• Introduction and biography(p. 90)
• Sources(p. 91)
• Feeling and language(p. 91)
• The art of understanding(p. 93)
• Grammatical and psychological interpretation(p. 94)
• Grammatical interpretation(p. 94)
• Psychological interpretation(p. 96)
• Grammatical and psychological(p. 97)
• Historical criticism(p. 97)
• The hermeneutic circle(p. 98)
• Outlook: Perception, feeling and language(p. 99)
• Conclusion(p. 101)
• 7 Historicism(p. 105)
• The text as source for the study of history: Dilthey and the history of religion school(p. 106)
• Wilhelm Dilthey: hermeneutics as the foundation of the human sciences(p. 106)
• History of religion school(p. 108)
• Hermeneutics of suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche and Freud(p. 109)
• Karl Marx(p. 109)
• Friedrich Nietzsche(p. 110)
• Sigmund Freud(p. 111)
• 8 Existentialism I: Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann(p. 115)
• Introduction(p. 115)
• Bultmann and Heidegger: Sources(p. 117)
• Existentialism(p. 118)
• Heidegger(p. 118)
• Understanding(p. 118)
• State-of-mind(p. 120)
• Discourse and language(p. 121)
• Interpretation(p. 122)
• Bultmann(p. 124)
• Human existence(p. 125)
• The word of God(p. 127)
• Conclusion(p. 128)
• 9 Existentialism II: The Path to Language(p. 135)
• Understanding through language(p. 135)
• Heidegger in his later career(p. 135)
• Gelaut der Stille (sound of silence) and Lauten des Wortes (sounding of the word)(p. 136)
• Unterschied (dif-ference)(p. 137)
• Ereignis (event/appropriation)(p. 137)
• Hans-Georg Gadamer(p. 139)
• The fusion of horizons(p. 141)
• An uncritical hermeneutic?(p. 143)
• Paul Ricoeur(p. 144)
• Sources and literature(p. 145)
• Critical method(p. 145)
• The surplus of meaning(p. 146)
• The conflict of interpretations(p. 148)
• Action and text(p. 148)
• Conclusion(p. 150)
• Hermeneutical theology(p. 151)
• The new hermeneutics(p. 151)
• Ernst Fuchs and the New Quest for the historical Jesus(p. 151)
• Gerhard Ebeling(p. 152)
• 10 The Universality of the Sign I: Open Sign Systems(p. 161)
• Structuralism(p. 162)
• Ferdinand de Saussure: the founder of structuralism(p. 162)
• Claude Levi-Strauss: structuralist interpretation of myth(p. 163)
• Jacques Lacan: structuralist psychoanalysis(p. 165)
• Post-structuralism and deconstruction(p. 166)
• Post-structuralism(p. 166)
• Deconstruction(p. 170)
• Postmodern theology(p. 171)
• 11 The Universality of the Sign II: Closed Sign Systems(p. 179)
• Karl Barth(p. 179)
• Hermeneutics and theology: speaking of God(p. 179)
• Analogy of faith(p. 181)
• Biblical hermeneutics(p. 182)
• Canonical approaches and new biblical theology(p. 183)
• Brevard Childs(p. 183)
• Literary criticism(p. 186)
• Background(p. 186)
• Principles(p. 187)
• 12 Critical Theory, Feminism and Postcolonialism(p. 192)
• Critical Theory(p. 192)
• The Frankfurt School(p. 192)
• Jurgen Habermas(p. 193)
• The debate with Gadamer(p. 194)
• Critical remarks(p. 196)
• Feminism(p. 198)
• Feminist interpretation(p. 199)
• The construction of gender(p. 200)
• The atomization of feminism(p. 201)
• Postcolonialism(p. 201)
• 13 Towards a Hermeneutical Theology(p. 207)
• Preliminary considerations(p. 207)
• Overcoming naive realism(p. 207)
• Theological foundations(p. 208)
• A hermeneutical theology(p. 212)
• A linguistically constituted experience(p. 212)
• Critical interpretation of texts(p. 214)
• Speaking within the theologian's context(p. 216)
• The nature of theological language(p. 217)
• Dogmatic language(p. 218)
• Narrative, praise and promise(p. 219)
• Conclusion(p. 221)
• Conclusion(p. 224)
• The inner word(p. 224)
• The significance of hermeneutics(p. 227)
• Index of Subjects(p. 229)
• Index of Names(p. 236)

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Alexander S. Jensen is now lecturer Systematic Theology at Murdoch University, Perth and at Perth Theological Hall of the Uniting Church in Australia.