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This book explores Kierkegaard's hermeneutical project as a form of theological interpretation in the service of religious upbuilding.
Cover
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Discourses as a Constructive Response to Scriptural Misuse
A. The Blocked Path of the Historical Critical Method
B. The Blocked Path of “Orthodoxy” and the Danish State Church
C. Kierkegaard’s Constructive Response: Upbuilding Discourses
II. Purpose and Structure of the Book
Chapter One: From Ordinary to Actual Reading: Metaphor and Tropology in Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Scriptural Hermeneutic
I. Introduction
II. Actual Reading and Scriptural Language as Metaphor
A. Illustrating the Movement from “Ordinary” to “Actual” Reading
B. Implications
III. Kierkegaard and Ricoeur: Metaphor and the Surplus of Meaning
IV. Kierkegaard and de Lubac: Spiritual Reading and Tropology
A. De Lubac and Tropological Reading
B. Kierkegaard as Modern Tropologist
V. Conclusion
Chapter Two: Hermeneutical Assumptions and Techniques of the Discourses
I. Introduction
II. Hermeneutical Assumption 1: Meaning is Generated at the Level of the Whole Canonical Context Rather than at the Level of the Immediate Context
A. Technique 1: The Development of an Upbuilding Argument Arises from the Creation of a Dialogue between Two Scriptural Texts from Different Contexts
B. Technique 2: Word Association: Interpreting a Particular Word through the Use of the Same Word in Another Passage
III. Hermeneutical Assumption 2: Meaning Occurs at the Level of the Word or Phrase Rather than at the Level of the Sentence or Paragraph
A. Technique 1: Technical Phrases which Carry an Established Meaning
B. Technique 2: A Scriptural Image, Phrase, or Statement is Used to Drive the Logic of the Discourse
C. Technique 3: Grammar of the Phrase is more Important than the Immediate Context for Generating an Upbuilding Meaning
D. Technique 4: Switching the Referent of a Phrase to Multiply the Meaning of the Phrase
IV. Hermeneutical Assumption 3: Universalizing the Text Makes the Reader Contemporary with the Subject Matter
A. Technique 1: Universalizing a Phrase Originally Given in a Particular Context to Make It a Norm for Salvation
B. Technique 2: Everything Written by an Apostle or Spoken by Jesus Can be Appropriated by the Individual for Upbuilding
V. Hermeneutical Assumption 4: Changing the Text Enables Readers to Envision Appropriation
A. Technique 1: Mistranslation and Incorrect Citations
B. Technique 2: Conflating or Recreating Biblical Narrative for a Contemporary Audience
VI. Hermeneutical Assumption 5: Spiritualizing a Narrative Detail Provides Deeper Meaning for Contemporary Readers
A. Technique 1: Reinterpreting a Narrative Detail to Communicate a Spiritual Truth
VII. Techniques that Add to the Text for Emphasis
A. Technique 1: Adding an Argument from Silence
B. Technique 2: Disagreeing with a Scriptural Statement for Further Emphasis
C. Technique 3: Changing, Intensifying or Explaining a Scriptural Command by Focusing on the Purpose of the Command
VIII. Conclusion
Chapter Three: Development of Rhetoric and Use of Scripture in Upbuilding and Christian Discourses
I. Introduction
II. Rhetoric and Scripture in the Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
A. Introduction
B. Structure and Development of the Argument
C. Universal Upbuilding Meaning
D. Conclusion
III. Rhetoric and Scripture in the Christian Discourses
A. Introduction
B. “The Gospel of Sufferings”
C. “The Cares of the Pagans”
D. “States of Mind in the Strife of Suffering”
E. “Thoughts That Wound from Behind— For Upbuilding”
F. “Discourses at the Communion on Fridays”
IV. Conclusion and Assessment
Chapter Four: Assessing the Relationship Between Upbuilding and Christian Discourses
I. Introduction
II. Distinctive Feature 1: Shifts in Scriptural Content
A. Areas of Change in Scriptural Content
B. Continuity in Scriptural Use: Doctrinal Principle Texts
C. Conclusions about Continuity and Change in Scriptural Content
III. Distinctive Feature 2: Change in Presentation of Scriptural Authority
A. Inherent Authority in the Upbuilding Discourses
B. Presented Authority in the Christian Discourses
IV. Conclusions about the Relationship between Discourses
Conclusion
I. Achievements and Remaining Questions
II. Reading the Discourses as Situational Religious Communication
A. The Theory of Stages and Its Problems
B. Discourses as Situational Religious Communication
C. Implications
III. Kierkegaard as Tropologist: His Hermeneutic in the Present Age
A. Resolving the Tensions in Authority: Metaphorical Reading in the Service of Christian Concepts
B. Kierkegaard as Tropologist: Articulating Criteria of Interpretive Adequacy for Regulating Interpretation
Bibliography
Index
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