Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Religion: Rebirth of the Capable Self

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Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Religion
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Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Religion: Rebirth of the Capable Self
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Abbreviations for FrequentlyCited Works by Ricoeur
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1
Reflection and Capability
	Reflexive Philosophy
	Karl Barth and the Theology of the Word
	The Philosophy of Existence: Marcel and Jaspers
	Explanation and Understanding
	Phenomenology
	I Can: Ricoeur’s Phenomenology of the Will
	Nabert and the Mediation of Self-Knowledge
	Suspicion: The Askēsis of Reflection
	The Little Self that Could: Attestation
	Notes
Chapter 2
Homo incapax
	Fault and Fallibility
	Ricoeur’s Hermeneutical Turn
	“A Symbolics of Liberty in Bondage”
	Destined for the Good yet Inclined to Evil: Kant on Radical Evil
	The Trouble with Adam (and everyone else): Augustine and the Hermeneutics of Original Sin
	Fragility and Suffering
	Notes
Chapter 3
Transcendence, Poetics, and the Formation of the I Can
	Transcendence
	Poetics
	Poetics and the Conatus
	Ricoeur’s Askēsis: Forming the Capable Self
	Bodily Exercise and Spiritual Formation
	The Active Cultivation of Receptivity
	Reading as Embodied Practice
	Notes
Chapter 4
Capability Reborn
	Kant on the Regeneration of the Will
	How Kantian is Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Religion?
	Testimony
	Hegel on Religious Representation
	Ricoeur’s Ontology of Human Capability
	Notes
Chapter 5
Addressed by the Word
	The Theology of the Word
	Event, Structure, and Text
	Distanciation, Appropriation, and Authorial Intent
	Biblical Interpretation: Revelation, Poetic Reference, and the Plurality of Genres
	The Bible: A Text among Texts?
	The Genius and the Apostle
	Becoming the Word of God
	Notes
Chapter 6
The Summoned Subject
	A Capacity to Hear the Call of the Other?
	The Case of the Missing Gifford Lectures
	The Summoned Subject and the Mirror of the Scriptures
	Justification and Capability?
	Notes
Chapter 7
Eschatology, Desire, and God
	Theonomy and Desire: The Case of Abraham
	Eschatological Desire and Desire for the Eschaton
	The Religious Aim: Capability and Union with God
	Notes
Chapter 8
Being and God
	The Transcendence of God and the Immanence of Reflection
	Jaspers: Ciphers of Transcendence
	Heidegger, Heraclitus, and Job
	Revelation as Manifestation and Proclamation
	The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Spinoza?
	Glimpses of the Trinity?
	Notes
Chapter 9
Violence, the Fundamental, and the Cross
	Ricoeur’s Nonviolent, Nonsacrificial Interpretation of the Cross
	The Cross as the Unity of Love and Justice
	Difficult Forgiveness
	Religion, Violence, and the Fundamental
	A Hermeneutical Response to Religious Violence
	Notes
Bibliography
Index
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