THE BIBLICAL KIERKEGAARD [Paperback]

Timothy Houston Polk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1997

Placing Kierkegaard firmly within the Augustinian tradition of reading Scripture according to the Rules of faith and love, Polk brings Kierkegaard's biblical hermeneutics into conversation with current postliberal narrative theology, speech-act theory, canon-contextual criticism, reader-response criticism, feminist theology, and political theology.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Mercer University Press (June 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865545391
• ISBN-13: 978-0865545397
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,379,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent linking of trad. Bible reading & modern herm'ntcs, April 15, 1998

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This review is from: THE BIBLICAL KIERKEGAARD (Paperback)

Polk accepts the various insights of modern hermeneutics, especially the idea that at the heart of interpretation is the notion of 'imaginative construal' where we construe a text as a particular speech act. He finds this in Stanley Fish, where the reading community makes the meaning, and sees it exemplified in Kierkegaard, who allowed this process to be governed everywhere by the rule of faith. Polk notes that even Fish saw Augustine's rule of faith as a model for how interpretation works. Following K, Polk then provides readings of James and Job to show how it works. Very helpful for providing examples of what happens when hermeneutical insights are pursued to the actual text of scripture.