Reviews for Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning, Manipulation, and Promise

The average rating for Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning, Manipulation, and Promise based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-18 00:00:00 Howard Katz What's good about this book is excellent: honest, searching, humble, and intelligent wrestling by an evangelical scholar with some of the great minds in hermeneutics. What's not good is really disappointing: the wrestling does not always produce a decisive pin. Brother Thiselton sometimes seems overmatched, in fact, leaving the reader to wonder just what's going on and why. Sometimes it's the exposition, sometimes it's the critical reflection, but the overall impression is of a commendably intrepid scholar just not quite able to match up with his interlocutors.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-18 00:00:00 Hilda Mills Totally agree with the only other review here. Though this is a dense book, with Thiselton engaging with a myriad of voices with such ease, there is something of lack of overall structure or thesis. The only other Theologian I know who writes like this is Vanhoozer, who can also leave you bamboozled if unfamiliar with the works referred to. This is particularly true of the section written against the 'sea of faith'. Still a good read overall.