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.
Material type: TextSeries: Landmarks in Christian scholarshipPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, [2009]Description: xv, 496 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780310324690 (pbk.)
- 0310324696 (pbk.)
- 220.601 22
- BS476 .V34 2009
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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Book | Reformational Study Centre General library | 220.601 VANH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | RSC002731 |
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.