Hermeneutics at the Crossroads

Kevin Vanhoozer is Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. James K. A. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Seminars in Christian Scholarship at Calvin College. Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College.

Contents Preface Kevin J. Vanhoozer Acknowledgments Introduction Bruce Ellis Benson, James K. A. Smith, and Kevin J. Vanhoozer Part 1. Philosophical Hermeneutics Revisited: Miracles, Resuscitation, Questions 1. Discourse on Matter: Hermeneutics and the "Miracle" of Understanding Kevin J. Vanhoozer 2. Resuscitating the Author Nicholas Wolterstorff 3. Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Relativism Eduardo J. Echeverria 4. "The Knowledge That One Does Not Know": Gadamer, Levertov, and the Hermeneutics of the Question Christina Bieber Lake Part 2. Derrida and Deconstruction: Haunted Hermeneutics and Incarnational Iterability 5. Hauntological Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Christian Faith: On Being Dead Equal before God John D. Caputo 6. Limited Inc/arnation: Revisiting the Searle/Derrida Debate in Christian Context James K. A. Smith Part 3. Literature's Contribution to Christian Understanding: Pointing, Witnessing, Exchanging 7. Meeting at the Modern Crossroads: Fiction, History, and Christian Understanding Roger Lundin 8. The Hermeneutics of Deliverance: Robinson Crusoe and the Problem of Witnessing Brian McCrea 9. John Calvin's Notion of "Exchange" and the Usefulness of Literature Michael VanderWeele Part 4. The Ethics of Interpretation: Improvisation, Participation, Authority 10. The Improvisation of Hermeneutics: Jazz Lessons for Interpreters Bruce Ellis Benson 11. Ethical Hermeneutics and the Theater: Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice Ben Faber 12. (Revelation, Interpretation) Authority: Kierkegaard's Book on Adler Norman Lillegard Contributors Index