Refiguring the Sacred

Joseph A. Edelheit is emeritus professor of religious and Jewish studies at St. Cloud State University.James Moore is senior research professor of theology at Valparaiso University. Mark I. Wallace is James Hormel professor of social justice in the Department of Religion at Swarthmore College.

• Part One Introduction to Part One: All You Have Is the Text: Paul Ricoeur’s Relationship with The SacredJoseph A. Edelheit and James MooreChapter One: Paul Ricoeur’s Biblical Theology and Jewish TheologySteven KepnesChapter Two: Ricoeur and the Religious ImaginationGeorge H. TaylorChapter Three: The Bible: A Polyphonic Medium for Self-IdentificationTimo HeleniusChapter Four: Ricoeur and Hope: Living after RuptureStephanie ArelChapter Five: Practical Theology as Practical Poetics: Building a Bridge between Prose, Poetics, and PraxisDan R. StiverPart TwoIntroduction to Part Two: The Crisis of Faith in a World Where God is Not Yet GodMark I. WallaceChapter Six: The Self in the Mirror of the ScripturesPaul Ricoeur, Translated by David PellauerChapter Seven: Fides Quaerens Intellectum: Biblical Antecedent?Paul Ricoeur, Translated by David PellauerAfterword: Continuing Conversations with Paul RicoeurJoseph A. Edelheit and James Moore

This book offers a feast of vital engagements with Ricoeur's hermeneutics of religion, providing critical insights into his relationship with theology, biblical studies, and phenomenology of the sacred. Refiguring the Sacred offers a timely and vigorous contribution to contemporary debates on faith and what comes after.