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Whose Community? Which Interpretation? Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, renowned philosopher Merold Westphal introduces current philosophical thinking related to interpreting the Bible. Recognizing that no theology is completely free of philosophical “contamination,” he engages and mines contemporary hermeneutical theory in service of the church. After providing a historical overview of contemporary theories of interpretation, Westphal addresses...

interpreters and traditions, there will be a “veritable plethora”4 of interpretations, each relative to a different perspective. The text will be dissolved or dispersed at the cost of its identity. It will mean everything and therefore nothing. Thus Dilthey’s question: “But where are the means to overcome the anarchy of opinions that then threatens to befall us?”5 Objectivism in hermeneutics is the belief (hope, claim, dogma) that while interpretation can become subjective in
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