A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics /
Jasper, David.
A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics / David Jasper. - First edition. - xii, 148 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and indexes.
Introduction: Recommended reading -- 1. Texts and readers: Reading and writing: Introduction -- Faith and suspicion, texts and readers -- Reading and writing -- The hermeneutic circle. 2. Midrash, the Bible, and the early church: Midrash and rabbinic interpretation -- Hermeneutics in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament -- The establishment of the Christian canon and the argument from tradition -- The school of Alexandria and the school of Antioch -- Augustine, bishop of Hippo (354-430). 3. From scholasticism to the age of enlightenment: medieval hermeneutics: Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225-74) -- The medieval minds: Meister Eckhart and Thomas a Kempis -- Christian humanism: Desiderius Erasmus (1466/9-1536) -- Martin Luther (1483-1536) and John Calvin (1509-64) -- The age of reason. 4. Friedrich Schleiermacher and the age of romanticism: The Bible and history -- Johann Salomo Semler (1725-91) and the canon of scripture -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and the romantic spirit -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Confessions of an inquiring spirit', 1840 -- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and the "handwritten manuscripts". 5. The Nineteenth Century: The critical spirit and the will to believe -- David Friedrich Strauss, 'Das Leben Jesu' (1835-36) -- The quest for the historical Jesus -- Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) -- Science and religion. 6. The Twentieth Century: Introduction -- Karl Barth (1886-1986) and Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) -- Paul Ricoeur (1913- ) -- Toward the Postmodern: Jacques Derrida (1930- ). 7. Varieties of postmodern hermeneutics: The Bible as literature/the Bible in literature -- Liberation and responsibility -- Politics and postcolonialism -- From intertextuality to film, art, ad the body. Conclusion: The sacred text and the future of writing -- Final questions.
Hermeneutics defines the rules used to search out the meaning of Scripture. This book assesses major Biblical interpreters & approaches to hermeneutics from the patristic period to the present day.
9780664227517 0664227511
2004043018
GBA445562 bnb
Bible--Hermeneutics.
BS476 / .J37 2004
220.601 JAS
A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics / David Jasper. - First edition. - xii, 148 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and indexes.
Introduction: Recommended reading -- 1. Texts and readers: Reading and writing: Introduction -- Faith and suspicion, texts and readers -- Reading and writing -- The hermeneutic circle. 2. Midrash, the Bible, and the early church: Midrash and rabbinic interpretation -- Hermeneutics in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament -- The establishment of the Christian canon and the argument from tradition -- The school of Alexandria and the school of Antioch -- Augustine, bishop of Hippo (354-430). 3. From scholasticism to the age of enlightenment: medieval hermeneutics: Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225-74) -- The medieval minds: Meister Eckhart and Thomas a Kempis -- Christian humanism: Desiderius Erasmus (1466/9-1536) -- Martin Luther (1483-1536) and John Calvin (1509-64) -- The age of reason. 4. Friedrich Schleiermacher and the age of romanticism: The Bible and history -- Johann Salomo Semler (1725-91) and the canon of scripture -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and the romantic spirit -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Confessions of an inquiring spirit', 1840 -- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and the "handwritten manuscripts". 5. The Nineteenth Century: The critical spirit and the will to believe -- David Friedrich Strauss, 'Das Leben Jesu' (1835-36) -- The quest for the historical Jesus -- Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) -- Science and religion. 6. The Twentieth Century: Introduction -- Karl Barth (1886-1986) and Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) -- Paul Ricoeur (1913- ) -- Toward the Postmodern: Jacques Derrida (1930- ). 7. Varieties of postmodern hermeneutics: The Bible as literature/the Bible in literature -- Liberation and responsibility -- Politics and postcolonialism -- From intertextuality to film, art, ad the body. Conclusion: The sacred text and the future of writing -- Final questions.
Hermeneutics defines the rules used to search out the meaning of Scripture. This book assesses major Biblical interpreters & approaches to hermeneutics from the patristic period to the present day.
9780664227517 0664227511
2004043018
GBA445562 bnb
Bible--Hermeneutics.
BS476 / .J37 2004
220.601 JAS