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mi se leutics R oger L undin Clarence W alhout Anthony C. T hiselton THE PROMISE OF HERMENEUTICS The Promise of Hermeneutics ROGER LUNDIN CLARENCE WALHOUT ANTHONY C. THISELTON W illiam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Grand Rapids, M ichigan / Cam bridge, U.K. mi paternoster press © 1999 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Published jointly 1999 in the United States of America by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 255 Jefferson Ave. S.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503 / P.O. Box 163, Cambridge CB3 9PU U.K. and in the UK by Paternoster Press an imprint of Paternoster Publishing PO Box 300, Kingstown Broadway rCarlisle, Cumbria CA3 OQS, United Kingdom All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 04 03 02 01 00 99 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lundin, Roger. The promise of hermeneutics / Roger Lundin, Anthony C. Thiselton, Clarence Walhout. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. Eerdmans ISBN 0-8028-4635-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Hermeneutics. 2. Bible — Hermeneutics. I. Thiselton, Anthony C. II. Walhout, Clarence, 1934- III. Title. BD241.L857 1999 121'.686 — dc21 99-12924 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from die British Library Paternoster ISBN 0-85364-900-6 Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Interpreting Orphans: Hermeneutics in the Cartesian Tradition 1 ROGER LUNDIN Descartes: The Endless Recuperation 6 “Beautiful Fruit Already Picked from the Tree”: Texts in an Orphaned Age 25 “The Shadow of Absence”: Orphans and the Interpretive Quest 42 Beyond the Orphaned First Person 54 Confessing Our Part 62 Narrative Hermeneutics 65 CLARENCE WALHOUT Texts as Objects of Action 65 Texts and Contexts 66 v CONTENTS Reference and Mimesis 71 Imagined and Actual Worlds 79 Textual Analysis 84 Texts as Instruments of Action 90 Relativism in Interpretation 91 Truth and Fiction: Authorial Stance 100 Truth and Fiction: The Text and the Reader 107 Ethics and Fiction: The Reader's Response 118 III. Communicative Action and Promise in Interdisciplinary, Biblical, and Theological Hermeneutics 133 ANTHONY C. THISELTON The Unity and Coherence of the Argument throughout This Study 133 Autonomy? Or Respect for the Other's Otherness as Given and Giving 133 Between the Scylla of Mechanical Replication and the Charybdis of Orphaned Indeterminacy 137 Some Presuppositions and Entailments of Illocutionary Speech-Acts 144 Reader-Response Theories and Biblical and Theological Fiction 152 “Why Hasn't Reader-Response Criticism Caught on in New Testament Studies?": A Diagnosis Suggesting Five Reasons 154 The Value of Some Specific Reader-Response Models for Reading Biblical Fiction and the Role of Imagination in Interpreting Plot 164 Polyphonic Voices in Theological Fiction: lob, Eliot, and Dostoyevsky on Evil 172 vi Contents Hermeneutics within the Horizon of Time: Temporality, Reception, Action 183 Natural Time, Clock Time, and Human Time: Temporality, Hermeneutics, and Theology 183 The Temporal and Historical Character of Jauss’s Aesthetics of Reception 191 Some Implications for Speech-Act Theory in Hermeneutics and for the Post-History of Biblical Texts 200 Further Implications and the Paradigmatic Status of Promise as Communicative Action 209 Further Implications for Theories of Knowledge and Philosophy 209 Socio-Ethical and Political Individualism and a Theological Critique of Autonomy 214 The Paradigm of Biblical Promise as Trustworthy, Temporal, Transformative Speech-Action 223 Promise as a Key Example for Understanding Illocutions in Speech-Act Theory 231 Selected Bibliography 241 Index 255 Vll

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