After Pentecost : language and biblical interpretation
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After Pentecost : language and biblical interpretation
（Scripture and hermeneutics series, v. 2）
Paternoster Press , Zondervan, 2001
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"Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, Bible Society."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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"There is always some view of language built into biblical interpretation. If we are to read Scripture to hear God's address it is vital that we attend to current debates about language and become critically conscious in this respect."Craig BartholomewAfter Pentecost is the second volume from the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar. This annual gathering of Christian scholars from various disciplines was established in 1998 and aims to reassess the discipline of biblical studies from the foundations up and forge creative new ways for reopening the Bible in our cultures.The Seminar was aware from the outset that any renewal of biblical interpretation would have to attend to the issue of language. In this rich and creative volume the importance of linguistic issues for biblical interpretation is analyzed, the challenge of postmodernism is explored, and some of the most creative recent developments in philosophy and theology of language are assessed and updated for biblical interpretation. CONTRIBULTORS INCLUDE:Mary HesseRay Van LeeuwenAnthony ThiseltonKevin VanhoozerNicholas Wolterstorff
Table of Contents
Contributors xiii
Abbreviations xvii
The Artists xix
Introduction by Craig G. Bartholomew xxi
1. From Speech Acts to Scripture Acts: The 1
Covenant of Discourse and the Discourse of
Covenant
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Introduction: Language in Jerusalem and Athens 1
The Covenant of Discourse: Speech Acts 4
The Discourse of Covenant: Canonical Action 31
Conclusion: The Covenant Community 44
Summary of Theses 46
2. Ricoeur, Speech-act Theory, and the Gospels 50
as History
Dan R. Stiver
The Gospels between History and Fiction 52
Ricoeur's Interweaving of History and Fiction 55
Speech-act Theory's Integration of History and Fiction 62
An Interweaving of Ricoeur and Austin 67
3. The Promise of Speech-act Theory for 73
Biblical Interpretation
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Where We Are Now in Theory of Interpretation 73
The Promise of Authorial-Discourse Interpretation for Biblical 82
Interpretation
Interpreting Scripture for Divine Discourse is 'Dogmatic' 85
Interpretation
Objections and Answers to Objections 87
Should We Practice Divine-Discourse Interpretation? 89
4. How to Be a Postmodernist and Remain a 91
Christian: A Responce to Nicholas Wolterstorff
Mary Hesse
5. 'Behind' and 'In Front Of' the Text: Language, 97
Reference and Indeterminacy
Anthony C. Thiselton
The Metaphorical Force of 'Behind' and 'In Front Of ' in 97
Hermeneutics
Why is there Dissatisfaction with Representational or Referential 102
Accounts of Texts and Language?
Is there Still Value in Drawing Distinctions between Worlds 107
'Behind' the Text and 'In Front Of ' the Text?
The Conflict between Consumerist Hermeneutics and Both 111
Theism and Reasonableness: Two Sides of the Case?
Concluding Postscript 116
6. A 'Polite' Response to Anthony Thiselton 121
William Olhausen
Language, Meaning and Theology 122
Politeness 125
Biblical Interpretation and the Holy Spirit 127
Conclusion 129
7. Before Babel and After Pentecost: Language, 131
Literature and Biblical Interpretation
Craig G. Bartholomew
Summary of Argument 131
Introduction 132
Origins and Development of the Modern and Late Modern 132
Debate about Language
Relevance of this Debate to Biblical Interpretation 134
Derrida, Language and Biblical Interpretation 139
Postmodernism as Confronting Us with Our Ultimate or Religious 142
Orientations Towards the World and Language
Scripture and Language 147
Theology and Language, and Biblical Interpretation 151
Conclusion 163
8. Language at the Frontiers of Language 171
Gregory J. Laughery
Introduction 171
Religious Language versus Other Types of Language 173
Should Scripture be Read as any Other Book or in a Special Manner? 183
Conclusion 189
9. 'Starting a Rockslide' - Deconstructing History 195
and Language via Christological Detonators
Colin J.D. Greene
Introduction 195
Apocalyptic and the Metaphor of the Kingdom of God 196
The Meaning of Apocalyptic and Eschatology within Recent 198
Biblical Scholarship
Jesus, Apocalyptic and the Kingdom of God 201
The Early Christian Communities, Apocalyptic and the Kingdom 205
of God
Further Implications for the Philosophy of History 209
Further Implications for the Philosophy of Language 215
10. Words of Power: Biblical Language and 224
Literary Criticism with Reference to Stephen
Prickett's Words and the Word and Mark 1:21-28
Stephen I. Wright
The Transparent Text? 225
Religious and Poetic Language 229
The Prophet and the Poet 231
'Disconfirmation' and Revelation 234
Metaphor and Reality 236
11. Reviving the Power of Biblical Language: 241
The Bible, Literature and Literary Language
Brian D. Ingraffia and Todd E. Pickett
General and Special Hermeneutics in Vanhoozer and Ricoeur 243
(Ingraffia)
Informing and Reforming the Scriptural Imagination: The Guest 248
in Parable and Poetry (Pickett)
Reforming or Deforming the Scriptural Imagination 259
12. Naming the Father: The Teaching Authority 263
of Jesus and Contemporary Debate
David L. Jeffrey
Religious Language versus Other Types of Language 173
Should Scripture be Read as any Other
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