Theology, Hermeneutics, and Imagination: The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity

Abstract

Preface 1. Theological hermeneutics in the twilight of modernity Part I. The Modern Roots of Suspicion 2. The scandal of positivity: the Kantian paradigm in modern theology 3. Against purism: Hamann's metacritique of Kant 4. Feuerbach: forgotten father of the hermeneutics of suspicion 5. Nietzschean suspicion and the Christian imagination Part II. Christian Imagination in a Postmodern World: 6. The hermeneutics of difference: suspicion in postmodern guise 7. The hermeneutic imperative: interpretation and the theological task 8. The faithful imagination: suspicion and trust in a postmodern world Appendix: Hamann's letter to Kraus Bibliography Index.