The fall of interpretation : philosophical foundations for a creational hermeneutic / James K.A. Smith.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press , c2000.Description: 228 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0830815740 (alk. paper)
  • 9780830815746 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD 241 .S595 2000
Contents:
Introduction: Interpretation & the Fall -- PART ONE: The fallenness of Hermeneutics -- Paradise regained -- Through a mirror darkly -- PART TWO: A hermeneutics of fallenness -- Falling into the garden -- Edenic violence -- PART THREE: Toward a creational hermeneutic -- Interpreting the Fall -- Interpretation in Eden.
Summary: "James K. A. Smith surveys contemporary hermeneutical discussion, identifying three traditions and how they understand interpretation: a present immediacy model, an eschatological immediacy model and a violent mediation model. Questioning the foundational assumption that these models share, Smith draws on and reworks Augustine's biblical understanding of the goodness of creation to propose a creational-pneumatic model of hermeneutics. The result is an understanding of the status of interpretation as a 'creational task', a task which is constitutive of finitude and thus not a 'labor' to be escaped or overcome. --From publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-218) and indexes.

Introduction: Interpretation & the Fall -- PART ONE: The fallenness of Hermeneutics -- Paradise regained -- Through a mirror darkly -- PART TWO: A hermeneutics of fallenness -- Falling into the garden -- Edenic violence -- PART THREE: Toward a creational hermeneutic -- Interpreting the Fall -- Interpretation in Eden.

"James K. A. Smith surveys contemporary hermeneutical discussion, identifying three traditions and how they understand interpretation: a present immediacy model, an eschatological immediacy model and a violent mediation model. Questioning the foundational assumption that these models share, Smith draws on and reworks Augustine's biblical understanding of the goodness of creation to propose a creational-pneumatic model of hermeneutics. The result is an understanding of the status of interpretation as a 'creational task', a task which is constitutive of finitude and thus not a 'labor' to be escaped or overcome. --From publisher's description.

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