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Foreword | xi | |
Acknowledgments | xiii | |
Abbreviations | xv | |
Introduction | xix | |
Part 1 | Introductory Questions | |
I. | The Nature and Scope of the Subject | 3 |
1. | Why Philosophical Description? | 3 |
Philosophy and the hermeneutical task | ||
Philosophy and the New Testament | ||
2. | The Underlying Problem of Hermeneutics: The Two Horizons | 10 |
The two-sided nature of the problem | ||
A New Testament example | ||
3. | Some Issues Which Arise from the Hermeneutical Problem | 17 |
The New Testament and pre-understanding | ||
II. | Further Introductory Questions: Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein | 24 |
4. | Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein: Three General Points | 24 |
Their importance | ||
Description and interpretation | ||
Tradition | ||
5. | The Relation of Wittgenstein to Heidegger, Gadamer, and Bultmann | 33 |
Secondary literature | ||
Language-game, horizon, and world | ||
6. | Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, and the New Testament | 40 |
The earlier and later Heidegger, Gadamer, and the Fourth Gospel | ||
Part 2 | Broader Issues in New Testament Hermeneutics | |
III. | Hermeneutics and History: the Issue of Historical Distance | 51 |
7. | The Pastness of the Past | 53 |
Nineham's historical relativism | ||
Criticisms of this position | ||
8. | The Emergence of Historical Consciousness | 63 |
Lessing, Herder, Hegel, and Ranke | ||
9. | Historical Method in Ernst Troeltsch | 69 |
History versus theology | ||
Troeltsch's positivism | ||
10. | History and Hermeneutics in Wolfhart Pannenberg | 74 |
His critique of Troeltsch and rejection of dualism | ||
IV. | Hermeneutics and Theology: The Legitimacy and Necessity of Hermeneutics | 85 |
11. | The Word of God and the Holy Spirit | 85 |
The Spirit's work not independent of human understanding | ||
12. | Faith, "Timeless Truth," Time, and the Word | 92 |
Replies to three further objections to hermeneutics | ||
13. | Understanding and Pre-understanding: Schleiermacher | 103 |
The hermeneutical circle; Schleiermacher's earlier and later thought | ||
14. | Pre-understanding and Theology | 107 |
Bultmann, Latin American hermeneutics, Ricoeur, and Freud | ||
V. | Hermeneutics and Language | 115 |
15. | The Restricted Hermeneutical Role of Linguistic and Semantic Investigations: Distance, Fusion, and Reference | 117 |
Linguistics and hermeneutics in Ricoeur | ||
Frei and Petersen | ||
16. | Respecting the Particularity of the Text; Word and Context; Hermeneutics as Translation | 124 |
Saussure; field semantics; Kelsey and Nida on translation | ||
17. | The Relation between Thought and Language and Its Bearing on Pre-understanding in Hermeneutics | 133 |
Whorf, Saussure, and Wittgenstein | ||
Part 3 | Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein | |
VI. | Heidegger's "Being and Time": Dasein, Worldhood, and Understanding | 143 |
18. | The Question of Being from the Standpoint of Dasein | 143 |
Is the question of Being meaningful? Dasein as a technical term | ||
19. | Dasein, Hermeneutics, and Existenz | 149 |
Hermeneutics and horizon; presence-at-hand | ||
20. | World and Worldhood | 154 |
The ready-to-hand and equipment | ||
Relation to sciences | ||
21. | State-of-mind, Understanding, and Discourse | 161 |
Double meaning of Befindlichkeit | ||
Fore-conception and language | ||
VII. | Further Themes in Heidegger's Earlier Thought | 169 |
22. | The Falling of Dasein: Dasein's Being as Care; Reality and Truth | 169 |
Inauthentic existence | ||
Truth as "letting be" what is | ||
23. | Being-towards-Death and Authentic Existence | 176 |
An existential phenomenon | ||
Comparison with Bultmann | ||
24. | Time, Temporality, and History | 181 |
Dasein's temporality and historicity as the basis for time and history | ||
25. | Two General Comments on "Being and Time" and Its Relevance to Hermeneutics | 187 |
"World" and the subject-object relation | ||
Role of cognitive thought | ||
26. | Further Comments on Heidegger's Thought | 194 |
Hermeneutical circle; feeling-states; hermeneutics of the "I am" | ||
VIII. | The Ingredients of Bultmann's Hermeneutical Concerns Prior to Heidegger's Philosophy | 205 |
27. | Bultmann's Relation to Liberal Theology and to Neo-Kantian Philosophy: Modern Man and Objectifying Thinking | 205 |
Herrmann, Cohen, and Natorp | ||
Science and objectification | ||
28. | Bultmann's Fusion of Neo-Kantian Epistemology with Nineteenth-Century Lutheranism: Objectification in Accordance with Law | 212 |
Faith no objective basis in dogma | ||
First hints of dualism | ||
29. | Bultmann's Indebtedness to the History of Religions School and to Current Biblical Scholarship: Kerygma and Myth | 218 |
Strangeness of the New Testament | ||
Weiss, Wrede, Schweitzer, Schmidt | ||
30. | Bultmann's Indebtedness to Dialectical Theology: The Final Setting of the Terms of the Hermeneutical Problem | 223 |
Barth and Gogarten | ||
Talk from God, not about God | ||
IX. | Further Philosophical Ingredients in Bultmann's Hermeneutics | 227 |
31. | Differing Roles of Heidegger's Philosophy in Relation to Bultmann's Hermeneutics | 227 |
Three ways of construing the role of Heidegger's thought | ||
32. | Bultmann's Hermeneutics and the Philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey | 234 |
"Life" and pre-understanding in Dilthey | ||
Legacy of Yorck | ||
33. | Bultmann's Appeal to Collingwood's Philosophy of History | 240 |
Affinities with Collingwood not to be exaggerated | ||
34. | The Emergence of a Dualist Trend in Bultmann's View of History | 245 |
History versus nature | ||
Ott, Young, and Pannenberg | ||
X. | Bultmann's Hermeneutics and the New Testament | 252 |
35. | Bultmann's View of Myth | 252 |
Three different definitions and responses to the problem | ||
36. | Bultmann's Proposals for the Interpretation of Myth | 258 |
Misunderstandings of Bultmann's aim | ||
Problem of the New Testament itself | ||
37. | Specific Examples of Re-interpretation in the New Testament: A Critique of Bultmann's Claims about Eschatology and Christology | 263 |
Three principles | ||
Objectification and contradiction | ||
Difficulties | ||
38. | Further Examples: A Critique of Bultmann's Claims about the Cross and Resurrection | 269 |
Application of the three principles and its difficulty | ||
39. | The Use of Heidegger's Conceptuality in New Testament Theology: Paul's View of Man | 275 |
Existential interpretation of sarx and soma | ||
Criticism of Gundry | ||
40. | Some Concluding Comments | 283 |
Complexity of Bultmann's position | ||
Genuine criticisms as against others | ||
XI. | Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics And Its Implications For New Testament Interpretation | 293 |
41. | The Relevance to Hermeneutics of Questions about Truth and Art | 293 |
Limits of "method." | ||
History of philosophy; art and the game | ||
42. | Gadamer's Critique of Hermeneutics from Schleiermacher to Heidegger | 300 |
Criticism of Ranke, Droysen, and Dilthey | ||
Advance of Husserl, Yorck, and Heidegger | ||
43. | The Task of Hermeneutics in the Light of Tradition and of Man's Historical Finitude | 304 |
Pre-judgment not merely negative | ||
Distance and the fusion of horizons | ||
44. | Hermeneutics and Language in Gadamer | 310 |
Language and thought | ||
Question and answer | ||
Assertions | ||
45. | Some Implications of Gadamer's Work: The Relation between Exegesis and Theology as the Problem of Fusion and Distance | 314 |
Tradition and systematic theology | ||
The Reformation and Stendahl's criticism | ||
46. | Further Considerations of the Issue: Exegesis and Theology with Special Reference to Diem, Ott, and Stuhlmacher | 319 |
Wrede, Schlatter, Rahner, Schlier | ||
Barth, Diem, Ott, Stuhlmacher | ||
XII. | The Later Heidegger, Gadamer, And The New Hermeneutic | 327 |
47. | The Malaise of Language and Thinking in the Western Language Tradition | 330 |
The legacy of Plato | ||
Reality and concepts | ||
Crisis of language | ||
48. | Language-Event and a New Coming to Speech | 335 |
Being and thought; "gathering" and art; language as the house of Being | ||
49. | Further Considerations about the Hermeneutics of Fuchs and Ebeling | 342 |
Einverstandnis and the parables of Jesus | ||
50. | Related Approaches to the Hermeneutics of the Parables: Funk, Via, and Crossan | 347 |
Affinities between Fuchs and Funk | ||
Via and the existential | ||
51. | Further Assessments of the New Hermeneutic | 352 |
Positive contribution, but also serious one-sidedness | ||
XIII. | Philosophy And Language In Ludwig Wittgenstein | 357 |
52. | The Contrast between Wittgenstein's Earlier and Later Writings and Its Significance for Hermeneutics | 357 |
Apel, and Janik and Toulmin | ||
Abstract logic versus language-games | ||
53. | The Earlier Writings: Propositions, the Picture Theory, and the Limits of Language | 362 |
The nature of propositions | ||
Logical determinacy | ||
Saying and showing | ||
54. | Hermeneutics and the Later Writings: Language-Games and Life | 370 |
The particular case | ||
Surroundings, training, application | ||
55. | The Hermeneutical Significance of the Argument about Private Language and Public Criteria of Meaning | 379 |
Public tradition versus "my own case." | ||
Wittgenstein and Bultmann | ||
XIV. | Wittgenstein, "Grammar," And The New Testament | 386 |
56. | Grammar, Insight, and Understanding: Examples of a First Class of Grammatical Utterances | 386 |
Eight examples in the New Testament | ||
57. | A Second Class of Grammatical Utterance and the Respective Life-Settings of the Two Classes | 392 |
Wittgenstein's On Certainty | ||
New Testament and classical literature | ||
58. | Class-Three Grammatical Utterances: Linguistic Recommendations, Pictures, and Paradigms | 401 |
Examples of the issue in the New Testament | ||
59. | Language-Games, "the Particular Case," and Polymorphous Concepts | 407 |
Examples from Wittgenstein | ||
"Faith," "flesh," and "truth" in the New Testament | ||
60. | Language-Games and "Seeing-as": A Fresh Approach to Some Persistent Problems about Justification by Faith in Paul | 415 |
Five persistent problems | ||
Verdicts within different systems | ||
61. | Grammatical Relations and Dispositions: Faith in Paul and in James | 422 |
Difference of logical grammar | ||
Dispositional accounts of faith | ||
Additional Note A | Wittgenstein and Structuralism | 428 |
Additional Note B | Wittgenstein and the Debate about Biblical Authority | 432 |
XV. | Conclusions | 439 |
Bibliography | 464 | |
Index of Subjects | 467 | |
Index of Names | 475 | |
Index of Biblical References | 482 | |
Index of Ancient Non-biblical References | 484 |
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