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| Acknowledgements | ||
| List of abbreviations | ||
| Introduction: The layout of this study and the approach behind it | 1 | |
| 1 | Enthymematic semiosis in Paul | 5 |
| 1.1 | A semiotic perspective for the study of Pauline argument. Umberto Eco's 'typology of modes of sign-production' | 5 |
| 1.2 | Pauline argument and the rhetorical dimension of his discourse. Two lines of approach: the classical and the 'new' | 10 |
| 1.3 | Intentionality in Pauline rhetoric. Differing estimates and the assumptions they entail regarding Pauline persuasiveness | 16 |
| 1.4 | From the rhetorical to the sacred dimension. Coding levels in Paul. The role of the enthymeme | 21 |
| 1.5 | Consequences of a semiological perspective. The crisis of rationality in Paul | 28 |
| 2 | Varieties of enthymematic effect in Romans 1-4 | 33 |
| 2.1 | The character of the enthymeme. Identifying enthymemes | 33 |
| 2.2 | The 'power of the gospel'. The enthymematic factor in Romans 1:16-17. Reconstructing the logic of debatable meanings | 37 |
| 2.3 | Those who are 'without excuse'. Those referred to in 1:20. The one addressed in 2:1. The enthymeme as innuendo | 46 |
| 2.4 | The 'advantage' of the Jew in the context of universal sin. Affirmation and denial in 3:1-20. The proleptically enthymematic factor | 51 |
| 2.5 | 'Boasting' decried; the law upheld in the context of boundary-effacing faith. Romans 4 as key to 3:27-31 | 60 |
| 2.6 | Beyond the enthymematic. Some methodological considerations | 66 |
| 3 | Ways in which enthymemes arise in Romans 5-7 | 68 |
| 3.1 | The peace of the justified in 5:1 as logically consequential. Uncertainties of enthymematic implication | 68 |
| 3.2 | The Christian's confident hope; two-sided enthymematic support for 5:5. (The uncertain role of 5:12-21.) | 77 |
| 3.3 | Sinning in the interests of grace. The 'knock-down' enthymeme of 6:1. The tangled basis of its confutation (6:2-11) | 81 |
| 3.4 | Christian eschewal of sin; prescribing what is affirmed. Enthymematic construal of logical anomaly in 6:12. Its sequel | 86 |
| 3.5 | The spirituality of the law upheld in refutation of the bipartite enthymematic 'Aunt Sally' of 7:7a and 7:13a | 93 |
| 3.6 | Linking the role and status of the enthymeme to how and when it arises, within the ambit of Romans 5-7 | 98 |
| 4 | How enthymematic argument stands in Romans 8 | 102 |
| 4.1 | The Christian's reprieve and the two 'laws'. The case for seeing 8:1 as an inference enthymematically drawn from 8:2. Different ways of unpacking [actual symbol not reproducible] and their bearing on the issue | 102 |
| 4.2 | Mortality, spirituality and filial inheritance, 8:9-17 and the regrounding of the argumentative dynamic through the enthymematic implications of Christian sonship | 111 |
| 4.3 | From sonship and invincibility to totality of gifting. The enthymemes of 8:31-2: their finality and its re-dimensioning | 118 |
| 4.4 | Security in the love of God. Paul's assurance (8:38) and its foundation in enthymeme and truism | 122 |
| 4.5 | Range and limits of the implications of Romans 8 for the role of the enthymeme in Paul's discourse | 129 |
| 5 | Knowing what tune Paul is playing | 132 |
| 5.1 | Coding and clarity in Guiraud and Prieto. Paul's own view of communication, and the problem it highlights | 132 |
| 5.2 | Clarity and the enthymeme in Romans 1-8. How should the coding be characterised? Aesthetic and other approaches | 138 |
| 5.3 | Coding in 'fuzzy' perspective. The possible implications for some concepts of Paul's | 145 |
| 5.4 | Interpretation and Isotopy. The value of isotopical analysis. An application to Romans on the basis of 1:12 | 153 |
| 5.5 | Problems and advantages of the foregoing application. Its interaction with my general thesis | 156 |
| Conclusion reached; their scope assessed | 159 | |
| Notes | 161 | |
| Bibliography | 193 | |
| Index of names | 206 | |
| Index of technical terms | 210 |
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Michael Hall
reviewed Wrestling with Rationality in Paul: Romans 1-8 in a New Perspective on February 19, 2012
Wrestling with Rationality in Paul
For those, like me, who have been troubled over the decades by violations of Bell inequality, then this is a must read. This is true even if the competence you bring to the book is limited.
Requisites:
For a full critical understanding--which I did not obtain--you should understand calculus to the point of partial derivatives and should also know probability notation. Without this, the gist of arguments can be understood by anyone who does not shy away from symbolic presentations and logic (assuming a very minimal numeracy).
Appendix B, an introduction to quantum mechanics, will give one a sufficient understanding of vector states, and some generalities about classes of operators that affect their evolution (without going into unneeded detail about Hamiltonian operators). For those whose education (but not aptitude) was less numerate, one read won't suffice; I flipped back and re-read selected passages. (It is not however a reference and is never intended to be one.)
The author is a philosophy professor but he avoids having the field's terminology obscure his presentation. If one isn't already familiar with evaluating causation through counterfactuals, one can pick it up contextually. More sophisticated understanding of this and a few other issues are only needed if one wishes to follow the defensive arguments the author mounts against potential attacks from his peers.
Substance:
The author shows quite convincingly that the violations of Bell inequality (and the broader issue that was tersely represented by Bell) create deep problems (although a few claimed problems are dismissed with equal authority). He shows too, illustrated with Bohm's heretical mechanics, that the deep problems plague determinate theories as much as stochastic ones. (Bohm's physics is well presented in a chapter appendix.) Attempts to reconcile the empirical results with special relativity are shown to spin off into wildness, only to be made worse by extension to general relativity. No attempt is made to choose among the purported solutions; rather the author indicates that they lack clear criteria for preference, and hints at the possible inadequacy of the attempted reconciliation.
In the end:
It will not cure one's distress about entanglement operating between space-like-separated events, but one will have a more mature appreciation of the dilemma; this is the best that can be offered today.
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