{"id":5006,"date":"2009-12-13T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/12\/only-one-can-write-this-book.html"},"modified":"2009-12-13T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T15:34:09","slug":"only-one-can-write-this-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/12\/only-one-can-write-this-book.html","title":{"rendered":"Only One Can Write this Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Thiselton.jpg\"<\/span>Of the handful of experts in the world in the field of hermeneutics, I can think of no one more prepared to write an introduction than Tony Thiselton. And he’s done just that in Hermeneutics: An Introduction<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This is not a primer for first year college students, but it is a primer for the theological student and there’s nothing like it — or as good or as informed.<\/div>\n
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It covers it all, so here are his topics:<\/div>\n
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Aims and scope<\/div>\n
Hermeneutics in the context of philosophy, Bible, literary theory and the social self<\/div>\n
The parables as example<\/div>\n
Judaism and the Ancient Greeks<\/div>\n
NT in the Second Century<\/div>\n
Third to Thirteenth Centuries<\/div>\n
Reform, Enlightenment, and the rise of Biblical criticism<\/div>\n
Schleiermacher and Dilthey<\/div>\n
Bultmann<\/div>\n
Barth, new hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism and James Barr<\/div>\n
Gadamer: The Second Turning point<\/div>\n
Paul Ricoeur<\/div>\n
Liberation and Postcolonial studies<\/div>\n
Feminist and Womanist <\/div>\n
Reader-response and reception theory<\/div>\n
Postmodernism and hermeneutics<\/div>\n
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Need I say more? A great book for a pastor  … one chp per month and a whole new way of seeing.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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