The Fall of Interpretation
Subtitle: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780830815746
Subjects: Schools Of Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Philosophy; Epistemology; General; Christianity; Hermeneutics; Religious aspects
First sentence: Interpretation has long been a sin.
Description: "James K.A. Smith surveys contemporary hermeneutical discussion, identifying three traditions and how they understand interpretation: a present immediacy model, an eschatological immediacy model and a violent mediation model. Questioning the foundational assumption that these models share, Smith draws on and reworks Augustine's biblical understanding of the goodness of creation to propose a creational-pneumatic model of hermeneutics. The result is an understanding of the status of interpretation as a 'creational task', a task which is constitutive of finitude and thus not a 'labor' to be escaped or overcome. --From publisher's description.