The Fall of Interpretation
Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic
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Word Count
57,000 words, Guess
Page Count
228 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8184810M
- ISBN-139780830815746
- ISBN-100830815740
- OCLC Control Number43445741
- Internet Archivefallofinterpreta0000smit
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- Library of Congress Control Number00024893
- LibraryThing84395
- Goodreads838277
Classifications
- LCCBD241 .S595 2000
- LCCBD241.S595 2000
Description
"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.
First Sentence
Interpretation has long been a sin.
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