Theology, Hermeneutics, and Imagination: The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity

by Garrett Green

Book Overview

This book explores the contemporary crisis of biblical interpretation by examining modern and postmodern forms of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion'. Garrett Green looks at several thinkers who played key roles in creating a radically suspicious reading of the Bible. After Kant, Hamann and Feuerbach comes Nietzsche, who marked the turn from modern to postmodern suspicion. Green argues that similarities between Derrida's deconstruction and Barth's theology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521045312
• ISBN13: 9780521045315
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"