Speaking Hermeneutically

Author : John Arthos
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781611172065

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Speaking Hermeneutically by John Arthos Pdf

John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment. Although these two traditions have a long and rewarding collaboration, it is only now that we begin to realize their potential for radically remaking the way we think and speak as social animals. Arthos marries the performative competencies of rhetorical practice with the circularity of hermeneutic understanding in a way that redefines the syntax of a humanist education in the twenty-first century. As a counter to the linear, technical rationalism that permeates common culture and educational praxis, Speaking Hermeneutically shows how a hermeneutically inflected rhetoric can lead to refashioning habits of thought and speech, the constitution of personal identity, the conventions of social engagement, and the deliberative practices that form the basis of public institutions. Arthos adapts the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur to a series of classic rhetorical texts and landmark political moments, modeling the revitalized interchange of traditions in a way that will be accessible to scholars and students in both fields of inquiry.

Author : James V. Brownson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563382393

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Speaking the Truth in Love by James V. Brownson Pdf

How can Christian faith be translated into new languages and into new cultural forms? James Brownson explores these and other questions in an effort to understand how the church can engage in cross-cultural hermeneutics in effective ways.

Author : Barry Sandywell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415101707

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Presocratic Reflexivity by Barry Sandywell Pdf

How did Western philosophy begin? What are the relationships between the construction of self-reflection and the social context and political institutions of ancient Greek society? In this third volume of Logological Investigations Sandywell continues his sociological reconstruction of the origins of reflexive thought and discourse with special reference to Presocratic philosophy and science and their sociopolitical context. He begins by criticizing traditional histories of philosophy which abstract speculative thought from its sociocultural and historical contexts, and proposes instead an explicitly contextual and reflexive approach to ancient Greek society and culture. Each chapter is devoted to a seminal figure or 'school' of reflection in early Greek philosophy. Special emphasis is placed upon the verbal and rhetorical innovations of protophilosophy in the sixth and fifth centuries BC. These chapters are also exemplary displays of the distinctive logological method of cultural analysis and through them Sandywell shows that by returning to the earliest problematics of reflexivity in premodern culture we may gain an insight into some of the central currents of modern and postmodern self-reflection.

Author : Paul S. Chung
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630870560

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Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics by Paul S. Chung Pdf

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics is a groundbreaking attempt to present constructive missional theology in an integrative and interdisciplinary framework as it provocatively utilizes and contextualizes Reformation theology and hermeneutics concerning ethical theology embedded within the wider horizon of World Christianity. Mission as constructive theology is explored and refined in an hermeneutical and interdisciplinary fashion, underlying a new horizon of postcolonial theology and mission in light of God's act of speech. Missional church founded up God's grace of justification and Christ's diakonia of reconciliation becomes ethically oriented public church as it is engaged in mutireligious diversity of people's lives and lifeworld in the postcolonial context of World Christianity.

Author : Leib Moscovitz
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 316147726X

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Talmudic Reasoning by Leib Moscovitz Pdf

The development of explicit legal concepts and principles in rabbinic literature reflects rabbinic legal thought at its most creative and sophisticated, as many of these concepts and principles deal with abstract, metaphysical entities. In this study Leib Moscovitz systematically surveys the development and impact of abstraction and conceptualization in the various legal corpora of rabbinic literature, illustrating the critical and unique role that conceptualization plays in talmudic reasoning. He demonstrates how the analysis of rabbinic conceptualization can shed light on numerous important aspects of rabbinic scholarship, such as the character and development of rabbinic legal thought, techniques of rabbinic legal exegesis, rabbinic jurisprudence, and various philological and historical issues in rabbinics, such as the chronology of the anonymous stratum of the Babylonian Talmud. Rabbinic conceptualization, though unique in many respects, shares certain features with cognate disciplines, and this study utilizes these disciplines (mainly jurisprudence, cognitive psychology, and philosophy) to illuminate rabbinic conceptualization wherever relevant. The themes addressed in this study include the use of casuistics, generalization, and implicit conceptualization in the earlier strata of rabbinic literature, classification and legal definition, legal fictions, legal explanation, analogy and association, and the development and use of explicit legal concepts and principles in the later strata of rabbinic literature.

Author : Alireza Shomali
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438473802

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Thoughtlessness and Decadence in Iran by Alireza Shomali Pdf

Bridges Western and non-Western political thought to address the problem of democracy and political decadance in contemporary Iran and, by implication, similar Islamic societies. Political decay in Islamic societies has for the most part been the subject of structural analyses while philosophical studies have been rare, often speculative and deterministic. Thoughtlessness and Decadence in Iran explores from a theoretical perspective the problem of democracy deficit—or, political decadence—in contemporary Iran and, by implication, in present-day Middle Eastern societies. This decadence, the book argues, is in part a religion-based decadence, and deliverance from it requires collective thoughtfulness about religion. Alireza Shomali conceptualizes the Iranian Reality in terms of a lack of not only good life but also thinking of good living. This thoughtlessness means dissolution of critical consciousness and, as such, it heralds escalating decadence. At this moment of rapid decay, the book argues, thought must become relevant to society: the communicative practice of thinking must emerge to examine the pathologies of a religiously administrated life. Opening a dialogue between Adorno, Strauss, Farabi and Razi, among others, Shomali underlines the critical points of similarity and difference between these thinkers and envisions a “local” emancipatory project that, noting the specifics of the Iranian case, takes lessons from the Western experience without blind imitation. Alireza Shomali is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College. He is the author of Politics and the Criteria of Truth.

Author : Andrzej Wiercinski
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783643911506

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Hermeneutics of Education by Andrzej Wiercinski Pdf

A hermeneutics of education pays special attention not to educational structures, but the central role of conversation in the educational process. The key issue is the formation of the person as a unique reality of being and acting while supporting intersubjective understanding. The polyphony of understanding places the human search for meaning within the horizon of incompleteness and allows for both, spontaneity and rigor, in order to reach an understanding of what is happening to us and in us when we understand. Reflection on education is always inseparable from educational practice.

Author : Derek Mitchell,Michael Loughlin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781527590595

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The Philosophy of Person-Centred Healthcare by Derek Mitchell,Michael Loughlin Pdf

This book sets out a philosophical basis for person-centred healthcare, primarily using work by Heidegger and Gadamer, but drawing on ideas derived from Aristotle and process philosophy, in order to show how practice can be improved and how examples of person-centred practice can be transferred between individuals and institutions involved in the commissioning and provision of healthcare. By providing an underlying architectonic, this work will help to enable practitioners to understand the benefits of person-centred healthcare practice in promoting autonomy in those who are suffering from chronic and other illnesses. The text takes a phenomenological approach to healthcare because it offers a rich and subtle way of thinking about how we know what we know, and this applies to our knowledge and understanding of how healthcare works just as much as it does to all other kinds of knowledge. For those in clinical practice, this book provides a guide to the thinking behind person-centred healthcare.

Author : Gregory Emanuel Bryant
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781524607715

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The American Church in Black and White by Gregory Emanuel Bryant Pdf

The American Church in Black and White is a book born out of the authors love for Gods church. It was shaped and given form and text in the crucible of the authors experience as a pastor of several Indiana congregationscongregations that attempted to create a Christian, counter-narrative, to the tragic narrative and legacy of our nations history of slavery and racism. Cautiously optimistic in tone, the author posits that if the American church is going to live into Christs prayer request for His church to be one (John 17:21), if the church is going to deal effectively with the fallen powers and win people to the Lord, then Christians will have to face and overcome the complex and tragic history of racial antipathy in this country; also, the church will have to learn how to successfully navigate a spiritual and cultural minefield. The author has distilled the three main cultural controversies (mines) that can explode/implode the churchs intercultural hopes, down to:1) Culturally-Based Worship Preferences 2) Culturally-Based Views on Ministerial Authority, and 3) Biblical Hermeneutics in Black and White. It is the authors conviction that in spite of these areas of potential conflict, God has given the church the power to become an intercultural community that is distinctive, attractive, and authentically Christian

Author : Maria Luísa Portocarrero,Luis António Umbelino,Andrzej Wierciński
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783643115492

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Hermeneutic Rationality by Maria Luísa Portocarrero,Luis António Umbelino,Andrzej Wierciński Pdf

The problem of the limits of reason is by no means a privileged subject of an academic discourse. By reducing reality to what can be conceived of within the paradigms of the scientific laboratory, manipulative despotism, which positivistic notion of objectivism has established, creates in a human being a unilateral conscience of the world and of oneself; a conscience that dominates today our understanding of existence in its manifold senses of Being and the world we live in. This way of thinking, based on a powerful and skillful technique aimed at controlling human life in all its dimensions, intends to impose this limiting positivistic horizon on human beings in the name of Liberte, Egalite, and Fraternite. Hermeneutic rationality resists the claims of modern science and promotes the culture of hospitality toward the world as it shows itself in its complexity. Maria Luisa Portocarrero, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, Professor of Philosophy, specializing in the phenomenological hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. Luis Antonio Umbelino, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, Professor of Philosophy and Artistic Studies. Andrzej Wiercinski, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, specializing in Practical Philosophy/Philosophical Hermeneutics.

Author : Hendrik Goede,Nico Vorster
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781776342235

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Christian hermeneutics in South Africa by Hendrik Goede,Nico Vorster Pdf

Hermeneutics remains a divisive and polarizing topic within scholarly and ecclesiastical communities in South Africa. These tensions are not limited to theoretical differences but often crystallize on a grassroots level when local churches and church assemblies have to make important decisions on controversial ethical topics such as ordaining women in church offices, assessing the ethics of gay marriages, and taking a stance on the land debate in South Africa. This book makes a unique contribution in two ways: firstly, it focuses on the uniquely South African hermeneutical landscape; secondly, it relates theories to practical ethical application. The unique scholarly contribution of this consists in it relating hermeneutics to ethics within the South African landscape. A diverse group of scholars have been invited to partake in the project and the views expressed are often quite diverse. This allows readers to develop an understanding and sensitivity of the various angles employed and the interests at stake in addressing difficult societal problems.

Author : Stefan Alkier,David M. Moffitt
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506483382

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New Testament Basics by Stefan Alkier,David M. Moffitt Pdf

New Testament Basics introduces college, university, seminary, and divinity school students to the study of the New Testament. Authors Stefan Alkier and David M. Moffitt adopt five major aims: (i) to explore how the Bible came to exist, dealing with the formation and significance of the Christian canon; (ii) to discuss the ways the Bible continues to exert influence on contemporary culture, demonstrating the ongoing value and importance of biblical literacy; (iii) to introduce readers to some of the most fundamental methods used in the study of the New Testament, including a substantial discussion of semiotics and its usefulness for New Testament interpretation; (iv) to provide a survey of central historical, social, and economic information as important contextual knowledge for interpreting the New Testament; and (v) to offer some brief discussion of the contents of several New Testament texts and consider ways they might inform theological reflection. In the end, Alkier and Moffitt's New Testament Basics fosters within students important competencies needed to read and interpret the New Testament for themselves.

Author : International Society for Hermeneutics and Science
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0792357981

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Hermeneutics and Science by International Society for Hermeneutics and Science Pdf

Proceedings of the First Conference of the International Society for Hermeneutics and Science

Author : Edward Earle Ellis
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161387422

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Prophecy and Hermeneutic in Early Christianity by Edward Earle Ellis Pdf

Author : Santiago Zabala
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231143882

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The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy by Santiago Zabala Pdf

Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala recast Karl Marx's theories at a time when capitalism's metaphysical moorings are buckling. Leaving aside the ideal of development and the general call for revolution, hermeneutic communism relies on interpretation rather than truth and proves more flexible in different contexts. It motivates a resistance to capitalism's inequalities yet intervenes against violence and authoritarianism by emphasizing the interpretative nature of truth. Paralleling Vattimo and Zabala's work on the weakening of religion, Hermeneutic Communism realizes the effective potential of Marxist thought.