Flesh Made Word: The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Identifying the “Protestant Interpretation Problem”: Sola Scriptura Hermeneutics from Luther to Barth
	The Original Context for and Tenets of Sola Scriptura
	The Significance of the Reformers’ Sola Approach for Protestant Hermeneutics
	From Luther to Barth: Modernity and the Rise of the Hermeneutic Question
	Notes
Chapter 2: Karl Barth’s Distinctive Iteration of Sola Scriptura
	Barth’s Actualistic Vision of Revelation
	Barth’s Actualistic Formula: An Irrational Approach to Revelation?
	Luther’s vs. Barth’s Sola Scriptura Options: Hermeneutic Opportunities and Quandaries
	Notes
Chapter 3: Protestant Alternatives in Wolfhart Pannenberg and Hans Frei: New Angles of the Interpretation Problem
	Pannenberg: Theologian of Critical History
	Pannenberg’s Oversight: Discounting Extra-Rational Sources of Understanding
	Hans Frei: Theologian of Christ’s Narrative Identity
	Frei’s Approach to Scriptural Interpretation: A Solution to the PIP?
	Frei’s Oversight: Suspending Illocutionary Concerns
	Reading Pannenberg and Frei as Correctives to One Another: Another Impasse
	Conclusion: Looking to “High(er) Church” Resources
	Notes
Chapter 4: Balthasar’s Contemplative Option: The Allures and Hazards of a “Christophorous” Hermeneutic
	Balthasar’s Key Insight: Humanity’s Self-Expropriation in Theodramatic Revelation
	Balthasar’s Paradigm, Applied: A (Theo)Dramatic Eschewal of Christoform Ambiguity
	Feminist Engagements with Balthasar’s Kenosis: A Self Expressed in Translucence?
	Notes
Chapter 5: Incarnational Unfolding through Pneumatological Incorporation: Balthasar’s Linear Model and Coakley’s “Spirit-Led” Alternative
	Contrasting Balthasar’s and Coakley’s Doctrines of the Incorporative Spirit
	Coakley’s Théologie Totale: Out of “Stuckness” in the Knowing Subject, and beyond the PIP?
	Looking Ahead: Toward a Transfigured Marian Profile
	Notes
Chapter 6: Word Made Flesh, Flesh Made Word: Discourse as Sacramental Site of Revelatory Encounter
	The Utterly Receptive Reader: A Misguided Hermeneutic Ideal
	Balthasar and Coakley: The Delusion of a “Translucent” Contemplative Subject?
	Flesh Made Word through the Body’s Grace: Toward an Alternative Hermeneutic Framework
	Conclusion: Practical Trajectories beyond the PIP
	Notes
References
Index
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