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Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views is unavailable, but you can change that!

Five experts in biblical hermeneutics gather here to state and defend their approach to the discipline. Contributors include: Craig Blomberg with the historical-critical/grammatical approach, Richard Gaffin with the redemptive-historical approach, Scott Spencer with the literary/postmodern approach, Robert Wall with the canonical approach and Merold Westphal with the philosophical/theological...

three, abstracting from what might be distinctive to any one of them. Ricoeur calls this the “deregionalization” of hermeneutics.7 Second, philosophical hermeneutics is not restricted to interpreting texts. Taking that practice as its point of departure, it extends interpretation to the writing of history (Dilthey), to nonliterary works of art (Gadamer), to meaningful action (Ricoeur) and to the entire domain of human understanding (Heidegger). Ricoeur calls this the “radicalization, by which hermeneutics
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