The Enigma of Divine Revelation: Between Phenomenology and Comparative Theology

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Intersections of Revelation and Hermeneutics
	1.1 Setting the Scene
	1.2 The Volume
	1.3 The Chapters
	References
Part I: Givenness and Interpretation
	Chapter 2: The Hermeneutics of Givenness
		2.1 The Objection of an Obstruction
		2.2 Givenness, Not Intuition
		2.3 The Construction of the Myth
		2.4 The Critique of Immediacy
		2.5 Interpreting, or the Response to the Call
		2.6 Interpreting, Reducing Itself
		2.7 Giving Itself, Showing Itself: The Gap
		2.8 Hermeneutics of the Gap
		References
	Chapter 3: Whose Word Is It Anyway? Interpreting Revelation
		3.1 Secularism, Plurality, Transcendence
		3.2 Philosophical Accounts of Transcendence
		3.3 The Need for Discernment
		3.4 Hermeneutic Resources for Discernment
		3.5 Conclusion
		References
Part II: The Phenomenality of Revelation
	Chapter 4: Revelation as a Problem for Our Age
		4.1 Revelation as a Cultural Problem
			4.1.1 A Secular Age
			4.1.2 The Post-secular
			4.1.3 Believing and Remembering
		4.2 Revelation as a Philosophical Problem
			4.2.1 The Great Divorce
			4.2.2 ‘Returning’ to Religion
			4.2.3 Revelation as the Ethical Relation
		4.3 Revelation as a Theological Problem
			4.3.1 Inverting the Paradigm
			4.3.2 Theology Does Not Reify Being
			4.3.3 Theology of Revelation
		4.4 ‘Turning’ to Theology with Phenomenology
			4.4.1 The Theological Turn and Phenomenology
			4.4.2 Lacoste and the Paradoxical Phenomenon
			4.4.3 Marion and the Saturated Phenomenon
			4.4.4 Romano and the Event
			4.4.5 The Place of Faith
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Revelation and Kingdom
	Chapter 6: “A Whole Habit of Mind”: Revelation and Understanding in the Christology of St. Cyril of Alexandria
Part III: Transforming Ways of Being in the World
	Chapter 7: Revelation and the Hermeneutics of Love
		7.1 Human Communication and Hermeneutics
		7.2 Hermeneutics and Revelation: The Challenge of Language
		7.3 Revelation and Hermeneutics: The Event of Manifestation
		7.4 The Hermeneutical Paradigms of Yale and Chicago
		7.5 The Need for a Hermeneutics of Love
		7.6 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Embodied Transactions
		8.1 Many Revelations: An Old Problem and a “New” Solution
		8.2 Hermeneutics and Comparative Theology: Natural Alliances and New Directions
		8.3 Subjectivity as a Way into “Strange Texts”
			8.3.1 Insights from a Monological Hermeneutical Space
			8.3.2 Insights from a Dialogical Hermeneutical Space
		8.4 Embodied Subjectivity
			8.4.1 The Habits That Make Bodies
			8.4.2 Embodied Religious Identity at the Confluence of Other Identities
			8.4.3 Comparative Theology as a Gateway to Somaesthetic Practice
		References
	Chapter 9: Into the Blue: Swimming as a Metaphor for Revelation
		9.1 Full Disclosure
		9.2 Submitting to Submission
		9.3 The Weight of Water
		9.4 Getting a Feel for the Other
		9.5 Faith as Fluid
		9.6 Mourning as a Faithful Response to Revelation
		9.7 From Mourning to Empathy
	Chapter 10: Revelation as Sharing in God’s Self-Understanding as Absolute Love
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Christian Tradition on the Scope and Content of Christian Revelation
			10.2.1 The Perspective from Vatican I’s Dei Filius to Vatican II’s Dei Verbum
			10.2.2 Yves Congar’s Retrieval of Thomas Aquinas’s Evangelical Roots
			10.2.3 The Perspective of Vatican II’s Dei Verbum
		10.3 The Cognitive Function of Meaning and the Distinction Between Nature and Supernature
			10.3.1 Beyond Both Extrinsicism and Reductionism: Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Barth on the Gift of Revelation and the Pre-Vatican II Consensus
			10.3.2 The Eastern Orthodox Rejection of the Nature/Supernature Distinction
			10.3.3 The Theorem of the Supernatural and the Vertical Finality of the Created Cosmos
		10.4 Receiving Divine Revelation: Counter-Positions and Positions
			10.4.1 Overcoming the Deficits of Ahistorical Orthodoxy
			10.4.2 Thomas Aquinas on the Light of Faith and of Prophecy in Relation to Theology
			10.4.3 The Light of Glory and the Revelatory Role of Christ Jesus
			10.4.4 The Holy Spirit’s Role in the Communicating and Receiving of Revelation
		10.5 The Analogy of Light: From Faculty Psychology to Intentionality Analysis
			10.5.1 The Transposition into the Perspective of the Primacy of Love
			10.5.2 Receiving Revelation: The Distinction Between Faith and Belief
		10.6 Revelation and Sin, Evil, and Redemption: ‘Love Alone Is Credible’
			10.6.1 The Revelation of Sin and Evil
			10.6.2 The Revelation of the Law of the Cross
		10.7 Conclusion
Part IV: The Future of Revelation, Propositions (Revisited), and Close Reading
	Chapter 11: Ta’wīl in the Qur’an and the Islamic Exegetical Tradition: the Past and the Future of the Qur’an
		11.1 The Qur’an and Its “Past”
		11.2 Qur’anic Exegesis: Tafsīr and Ta’wīl
		11.3 The Importance and Limitations of a Hermeneutics of the Past
		11.4 Ta’wīl as the Unfolding of Meaning over Time
		11.5 Conclusion
	Chapter 12: The Logic of Revelation
		12.1 Revelation as Revealing First Premises
			12.1.1 The Reality of Revelation
			12.1.2 Indexicality as Mark of the Reality of Revelation
			12.1.3 Predication as Non-given: The Danger of Idolatry
		12.2 “Say to” (dibber l’): Revelation as Relational
			12.2.1 Predications of Revelation Appear as Consequences of the Worldly Conditions of Revelation
			12.2.2 Revelation Is Received by Human Language Communities (Without Precluding Other Modes of Creaturely Reception)
			12.2.3 As Mattan Torah, Revelation Displays and Enacts Relations Between God and Israel
		12.3 Dibber, davar (Speaking, Spoken-Thing): Revelation as Event-Relation to Creation
			12.3.1 Creatures as Things
			12.3.2 Revelation as Relation of God to God’s Word
		12.4 Peshat (“Plain Sense” Reading) and derash (Interpretive Reading)
			12.4.1 Plain Sense Is Given but Non-predicative
			12.4.2 Derash, Interpreted Meaning, Is Predicative, Relational, Historically Conditioned, and it Is Authoritative Only When and Where It Is Articulated
		12.5 Pagam (“Maculation,” Error and Sin): The Case of dochok (“Forced Reading”) or halakhah l’moshe misinai
	Chapter 13: Revelatory Hermeneutics: How to Read a Gospel, in Light of Mīmāṃsā, India’s Greatest Interpretive Tradition
		13.1 Mīmāṃsā: A Distinctively Indian Hermeneutics
		13.2 Hermeneutics at Work
		13.3 Hermeneutics Is Revelation
		13.4 From Mīmāṃsā to Other Hermeneutics: Reading with the Rabbis and Wittgenstein
		13.5 Vedānta’s Mīmāṃsā Hermeneutics of a Revelation Beyond the Text
		13.6 Reading the Gospels after Mīmāṃsā
		13.7 What a Mīmāṃsā Reader Might Look for in the Gospel According to John
		13.8 In Conclusion: Revelation as Hermeneutics