Paul Ricœur, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and the Question of Revelation

Christina M. Gschwandtner

doi:10.5771/9781666937299

Summary

The topic of revelation is fundamental to any account of religious experience, playing a special role in the Judeo-Christian tradition where the texts of Scripture are regarded as revealed. Yet, any reflection on the revealed status of a given message or text requires interpretation. Paul Ricœur, one of the most important hermeneutic philosophers of the twentieth century, provides crucial insights on how such interpretation might proceed and what it might mean for texts to be revealed. Edited by Christina M. Gschwandtner, Paul Ricoeur, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and the Question of Revelation brings together major scholars of Ricœur’s work on the topic of revelation, showing both the role it already plays in his work and how his thinking might be taken further. Several contributors trace the development of his thought in regard to the concept of revelation. Others discuss the revelatory dimensions of Ricœur’s hermeneutics of the self, especially for such issues as identity, trauma, and forgiveness. Several contributions also place his work in conversation with that of other seminal thinkers on the topic of revelation, such as Karl Barth and Paul Tillich.

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3728-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3729-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 272
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 38
1. 1. 1. “Note on the Relationship between Philosophy and Christianity” (1936) No access
    2. “Truth: Jesus and Pontius Pilate” (1945–1946) No access
    3. “Truth and Falsehood” (1951) and “Note on the Wish and Endeavor for Unity” (1952) No access
  2. 1. The Tautegorical Myth No access
    2. What the Symbol Gives to Thought No access
    3. To Elaborate the Belief in the Wager No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. References No access
2. 1. Grounds for Revelation No access
  2. 1. The Sign as Sacrament No access
    2. Revelation as Manifestation No access
    3. Poetic Discourse No access
  3. The Dynamic of Ricœur’s Starting Point No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
3. 1. Ricœur’s Dialectic between Suspicion and Recollection of Meaning No access
  2. Trust in Language No access
  3. Hermeneutics beyond Suspicion: Truth, Reason, and the Subject No access
  4. The Hermeneutics of Revelation No access
  5. Final Notes No access
  6. Acknowledgments No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. References No access
1. 1. 1. The Critique of Religion No access
    2. Faith and the Recovery of Meaning No access
  2. 1. Chance No access
    2. Religions and Languages No access
    3. Destiny No access
  3. Choice and Conversion No access
  4. Revelation and Religious Experience No access
  5. Conclusion: The Poetics of the Self No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. Situating the Question of Forgiveness No access
  2. Difficult Forgiveness No access
  3. The Logic of Superabundance No access
  4. 1. The Idea and Forms of Revelation No access
    2. The Role of Imagination No access
  5. Toward a Hermeneutics of Forgiveness at the Threshold of Theology No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
3. 1. Rosenzweig, Ricœur, and Revelation No access
  2. Dependence No access
  3. Turning to the Psychological No access
  4. The Economy of the Gift No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
4. 1. The Self Beyond Self-Assurance and Self-Mastery No access
  2. The Structure of Play and the Structure of Call and Response No access
  3. Conclusion: The Unknowable Self of Revelation No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
1. 1. The Challenge of Modern Hermeneutics No access
  2. Incarnational Hermeneutics No access
  3. Implications for a Hermeneutics of Revelation No access
  4. Notes No access
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2. 1. Thinkers on the Boundary No access
  2. Paul Tillich’s Plurality of Revelations No access
  3. Paul RicŒur’s Polyphony of Revelation No access
  4. Revelation and Mystery in Tillich and Ricœur No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
3. 1. The Theology of the Word No access
  2. Ricœur on the Theology of the Word No access
  3. Texts and Persons No access
  4. The Word of Revelation as Personal Address No access
  5. The Word of God and the Power of the Spirit No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
Index No access Pages 265 - 268
About the Contributors No access Pages 269 - 272