TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,James K.A.
TI  - The fall of interpretation: philosophical foundations for a creational hermeneutic 
SN  - 0830815740 (alk. paper)
AV  - BD 241 .S595 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Downers Grove, Ill.
PB  - InterVarsity Press
KW  - Hermeneutics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Philosophical theology
KW  - Fall of man
KW  - Creation
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -