Places hermeneutics between disciplines, genres, languages, and religious commitments. As this work addresses the work of Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Derrida, the essays collected here engage key themes in philosophical hermeneutics, hermeneutics and religion, hermeneutics and the other arts, hermeneutics and literature, and hermeneutics and ethics.

ContentsPreface Kevin J. VanhoozerAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Bruce Ellis Benson, James K. A. Smith, and Kevin J. VanhoozerPart 1. Philosophical Hermeneutics Revisited: Miracles, Resuscitation, Questions1. Discourse on Matter: Hermeneutics and the "Miracle" of Understanding Kevin J. Vanhoozer2. Resuscitating the Author Nicholas Wolterstorff3. Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Relativism Eduardo J. Echeverria4. "The Knowledge That One Does Not Know": Gadamer, Levertov, and the Hermeneutics of the Question Christina Bieber LakePart 2. Derrida and Deconstruction: Haunted Hermeneutics and Incarnational Iterability5. Hauntological Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Christian Faith: On Being Dead Equal before God John D. Caputo6. Limited Inc/arnation: Revisiting the Searle/Derrida Debate in Christian Context James K. A. SmithPart 3. Literature's Contribution to Christian Understanding: Pointing, Witnessing, Exchanging7. Meeting at the Modern Crossroads: Fiction, History, and Christian Understanding Roger Lundin8. The Hermeneutics of Deliverance: Robinson Crusoe and the Problem of Witnessing Brian McCrea9. John Calvin's Notion of "Exchange" and the Usefulness of Literature Michael VanderWeelePart 4. The Ethics of Interpretation: Improvisation, Participation, Authority10. The Improvisation of Hermeneutics: Jazz Lessons for Interpreters Bruce Ellis Benson11. Ethical Hermeneutics and the Theater: Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice Ben Faber12. (Revelation, Interpretation) Authority: Kierkegaard's Book on Adler Norman LillegardContributorsIndex