Is there a meaning in this text? :

Vanhoozer, Kevin J.

Is there a meaning in this text? : the Bible, the reader, and the morality of literary knowledge / Kevin J. Vanhoozer ; foreword by Craig L. Blomberg. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, [2009] - xv, 496 p. ; 23 cm. - Landmarks in Christian scholarship. . - Landmarks in Christian scholarship. .

Originally published: 1998. With new foreword and pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: theology and literary theory -- Faith seeking textual understanding -- Undoing interpretation: authority, allegory, anarchy -- Undoing the author: authority and intentionality -- Undoing the book: textuality and indeterminacy -- Undoing the reader: contextuality and ideology -- Redoing interpretation: agency, action, affect -- Restructuring the author: meaning as communicative action -- Redeeming the text: the rationality of literary acts -- Reforming the reader: interpretive virtue, spirituality and communicative efficacy -- Conclusion: a hermeneutics of the Cross -- A hermeneutics of humility and conviction.

9780310324690 (pbk.) 0310324696 (pbk.)

2009020795


Bible--Hermeneutics.


Hermeneutics--Religious aspects--Christianity.

BS476 / .V34 2009

220.601