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.

• ContentsPrefaceKevin J. VanhoozerAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBruce Ellis Benson, James K. A. Smith, and Kevin J. VanhoozerPart 1. Philosophical Hermeneutics Revisited: Miracles, Resuscitation, Questions1. Discourse on Matter: Hermeneutics and the "Miracle" of UnderstandingKevin J. Vanhoozer2. Resuscitating the AuthorNicholas Wolterstorff3. Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Relativism Eduardo J. Echeverria4. "The Knowledge That One Does Not Know": Gadamer, Levertov, and the Hermeneutics of the QuestionChristina Bieber LakePart 2. Derrida and Deconstruction: Haunted Hermeneutics and Incarnational Iterability5. Hauntological Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Christian Faith: On Being Dead Equal before GodJohn D. Caputo6. Limited Inc/arnation: Revisiting the Searle/Derrida Debate in Christian ContextJames K. A. SmithPart 3. Literature's Contribution to Christian Understanding: Pointing, Witnessing, Exchanging7. Meeting at the Modern Crossroads: Fiction, History, and Christian UnderstandingRoger Lundin8. The Hermeneutics of Deliverance: Robinson Crusoe and the Problem of WitnessingBrian McCrea9. John Calvin's Notion of "Exchange" and the Usefulness of LiteratureMichael VanderWeelePart 4. The Ethics of Interpretation: Improvisation, Participation, Authority10. The Improvisation of Hermeneutics: Jazz Lessons for InterpretersBruce Ellis Benson11. Ethical Hermeneutics and the Theater: Shakespeare's Merchant of VeniceBen Faber12. (Revelation, Interpretation) Authority: Kierkegaard's Book on AdlerNorman LillegardContributorsIndex