Thiselton on Hermeneutics: The Collected Works and New Essays of Anthony Thiselton

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - Religion - 827 pages
Hermeneutics is an interdisciplinary study of how we interpret texts, especially biblical texts, in the light of theories of understanding in philosophy, meaning in literary theory, and of theology. This volume brings together the seminal thought of a leading contemporary pioneer in this field. Thiselton's The Two Horizons was a classic on how horizons of biblical texts engage creatively with the horizons of the modern world. The author's later New Horizons in Hermeneutics explored still more deeply the transforming capacities of biblical texts, while his massive commentary on 1 Corinthians interpreted an epistle. This volume collects many of Anthony Thiselton's more notable writings from some seven books and 70 articles, to which he adds his own re-appraisals of earlier work. It uniquely expounds the thought of a major contemporary British theologian through his own words, and includes his own critical assessments.

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Contents

Lexicocraphy Exegesis and Reception History 245
16
The Supposed Power of Words in
53
Christological Texts in Paul 1992
75
75
94
9
118
A Retrospective Reappraisal of Work on SpeechAct Theory New essay
131
The Meaning of Σáp
165
Josephus 1979
247
God as SelfAffirming Illusion?
537
Loss of Hope and the Possibility
555
Signs of the Times Towards a Theology
581
Behind and In Front Of
607
Can Authority Remain Viable in a Postmodern Climate? Biblical
625
Can a PreModern Bible Address
643
Does the Bible Call All Cretans Liars? The Logical Role of the Liar Paradox
659
New essay
663

Does Lexicographical Research Yield Hebrew and Greek Concepts
267
Love the Essential and Lasting
305
165
306
Meanings and Greek Translation Relating to Spiritual Gifts in 1 Corinthians
335
Ten Strategies for Reading Texts
349
Lexicography Exegesis and Strategies
385
Semantics and New Testament
402
The Parables as LanguageEvent
417
The Two Horizons
441
The New Hermeneutic 1977
463
Types of ReaderResponse Theory 1992
489
Worlds New essay
515
Conceptual Grammar and InterDisciplinary
676
Academic Freedom Religious Tradition
685
Knowledge Myth and Corporate Memory
701
Time and Grand Narrative? Human Being Relationality and Time
727
Research New essay
747
Luther and Barth on 1 Corinthians 15 Six Theses
769
The Contributions of the Five Essays
793
Index of Names and Subjects
809
191
818
229
825
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Anthony C. Thiselton is professor emeritus of Christian theology at the University of Nottingham.

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