Description
This volume explores the possibilities and pressures of the language of revelation on human understanding. How can we critically account for divine self-disclosure in the linguistically mediated world of human concerns? Does the structure of interpretation limit the language of revelation? Does revelation open up new horizons of critical interpretation? The volume brings together theologians who approach the interactions of revelation and hermeneutics with different perspectives, including various forms of phenomenology and comparative theology. It approaches the theme of revelation – central as it is to the theological endeavour – from several angles rather than a single methodological program. Dealing as it does with revelation and understanding, the volume addresses the foundational issues at stake in the challenges around change, identity, and faithfulness currently facing the church.
Table of Contents
Part I: Revelation and Givenness.- 1. Interpreting the Excess (Jean-Luc Marion).- 2. On Givenness and Revelation: Reading Experience (Robyn Horner).- 3. Revelation and the Kingdom (Kevin Hart).- 4. Cyril of Alexandria and the Hermeneutics of the Body (William C. Hackett).- Part II: Revelation and Understanding.- 5. Revelation and Authority (Sandra Schneiders).- 6. Hermeneutics of Love: Moving Beyond the Hermeneutics of Revelation to the Hermeneutics of Signification (Werner Jeanrond).- 7. Lonergan and Gadamer: Rethinking the Theological Foundations of Revelation (Frederick Lawrence).- 8. Blue Eden: Water as a Window into Revelation (Michele Saracino).- Part III: Revelation and Comparative Theology.- 9. From Hermeneutics to Revelation: How Hindu Methods of Reading Introduce Us to Revelation (Francis X. Clooney).- 10. The Logic of Revelation (Peter Ochs).- 11. The Qur’an on Reading the Qur’an: The Hermeneutics of Islamic Revelation (Maria Dakake).- 12. The Power of Revelation: Overcoming Essentialism in Theological Configurations of Christianity and World Religions (Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer).
