Paul Ricœur, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and the Question of Revelation

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Revelation and Ricœur’s Symbolism of Evil
		Symbol
		Myth
		Metaphor
	Revelation and Ricœur’s Biblical Hermeneutics
		Polyphony
		The World of the Text
		Limit-Expressions and the Logic of Superabundance
	Revelation and Ricœur’s Hermeneutics of the Self
		The Scriptural Self
		The Summoned Self
		The Witnessing Self
	Revelation and Ricœur’s Hermeneutic Legacy
	The Contributions to This Volume
		Part I
		Part II
		Part III
	Notes
	References
Part I: The Question of Revelation in Ricœur’s Work
Chapter 1: From the “Revealed” to the “Revealing”: Uses of the Notion of Revelation in the Philosophy of Paul Ricœur
	Philosophy, Religion, and Revelation in the Early Ricœur (1936–1952)
		“Note on the Relationship between Philosophy and Christianity” (1936)
		“Truth: Jesus and Pontius Pilate” (1945–1946)
		“Truth and Falsehood” (1951) and “Note on the Wish and Endeavor for Unity” (1952)
	The Symbolism of Evil (1960): The Revealing Myth
		The Tautegorical Myth
		What the Symbol Gives to Thought
		To Elaborate the Belief in the Wager
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: Thinking Revelation: A Catholic Reading of Paul Ricœur’s Philosophy of Revelation
	Grounds for Revelation
	Ricœur’s Hermeneutics and Revelation
		The Sign as Sacrament
		Revelation as Manifestation
		Poetic Discourse
	The Dynamic of Ricœur’s Starting Point
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Hermeneutics beyond Suspicion: Meaning-making and Trust in Language
	Ricœur’s Dialectic between Suspicion and Recollection of Meaning
	Trust in Language
	Hermeneutics beyond Suspicion: Truth, Reason, and the Subject
	The Hermeneutics of Revelation
	Final Notes
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Part II: Revelation and the Question of the Self
Chapter 4: The Poetics of the Self: On the Three Levels of Transformation in Ricœur’s Account of Faith
	Faith as Counterpart to Suspicion
		The Critique of Religion
		Faith and the Recovery of Meaning
	Contingency and Commitment
		Chance
		Religions and Languages
		Destiny
	Choice and Conversion
	Revelation and Religious Experience
	Conclusion: The Poetics of the Self
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: The Poetics of Forgiveness at the Limit in Ricœur’s Thought
	Situating the Question of Forgiveness
	Difficult Forgiveness
	The Logic of Superabundance
	Toward a Hermeneutics of Revelation
		The Idea and Forms of Revelation
		The Role of Imagination
	Toward a Hermeneutics of Forgiveness at the Threshold of Theology
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: The Discourse of Revelation: Ricœur’s Hermeneutics Untangles Trauma, Dependence, and Love
	Rosenzweig, Ricœur, and Revelation
	Dependence
	Turning to the Psychological
	The Economy of the Gift
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: The Self of Revelation in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricœur
	The Self Beyond Self-Assurance and Self-Mastery
	The Structure of Play and the Structure of Call and Response
	Conclusion: The Unknowable Self of Revelation
	Notes
	References
Part III: Ricœur in Conversation on the Question of Revelation
Chapter 8: Revelation from the Ground Up: Embodied Hermeneutics
	The Challenge of Modern Hermeneutics
	Incarnational Hermeneutics
	Implications for a Hermeneutics of Revelation
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9: Preserving the Mystery: Paul Ricœur and Paul Tillich on Revelation
	Thinkers on the Boundary
	Paul Tillich’s Plurality of Revelations
	Paul RicŒur’s Polyphony of Revelation
	Revelation and Mystery in Tillich and Ricœur
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: Meaning and Persons: The Ontology of the Word as Revelation
	The Theology of the Word
	Ricœur on the Theology of the Word
	Texts and Persons
	The Word of Revelation as Personal Address
	The Word of God and the Power of the Spirit
	Notes
	References
Index
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