Research Catalog

Title

Christian hermeneutics : Paul Ricœur and the refiguring of theology / James Fodor.

Author

Fodor, Jim

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xiv, 370 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Paul Ricœur is one of the most influential philosophers alive today. This book draws primarily on Ricoeur's hermeneutic insights to address the fundamental question of how reference, truth, and meaning are related in the discourse of theology. The author defends the view that theological truth-claims cannot be sustained without some appeal to the referential, or in Ricœur's terminology 'refigurative' potential intrinsic to our linguistic practices. What it means for Christians to tell the truth, for their language and life to display and thus elicit trust, cannot be understood apart from an appreciation of the refigurative power of language. By appealing to Aristotle's theory of mimesis (imitation), and muthos (plot), as well as to the ideas of Augustine and Heidegger on time, Dr Fodor analyses the striking possibilities offered by Paul Ricœur whereby theological discourse might renew its task of speaking truthfully of God, and hence of our relation to God, to one another, and to the world."--

Alternative Title

Paul Ricœur and the refiguring of theology

Subject

• Ricœur, Paul
• Ricœur, Paul
• Ricoeur, Paul
• 1900-1999
• Hermeneutics > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > 20th century
• Hermeneutics
• hermeneutics
• Hermeneutics
• Hermeneutics > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines
• Hermeneutik
• Hermeneutiek
• Theologie
• Christendom
• Hermeneutics > Religious aspects > Christianity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Theological integrity and the practice of truth-telling -- Truth and truth-telling: Christian practice and the philosophical tradition -- Paul Ricœur's hermeneutical project and the question of reference -- Ricœur on metaphor and metaphorical reference -- Narrative, temporality, and the productive imagination -- Narrative, revelation, and the naming of God -- Recœur versus Frei: extra-linguistic reference and the absorbing world of the Bible -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 019826349X
• 9780198263494

LCCN

95012093

OCLC

• ocm32273143
• 32273143
• SCSB-2071617

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library