Comments on: Canonizing Culture

By: Stephen Hebert

Stephen Hebert — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:22:30 +0000

Hahaha! Something tells me that I’m not gonna get to that during my “summer reading.”

By: c. stirling bartholomew

c. stirling bartholomew — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:56:52 +0000

From your sidebar “The Devil Reads Derrida.” That is a nice hermenutical thought. BTW, I don’t really agree with G.Fee’s definition. If you haven’t read the fifty year old classic by Bernard (Bernie) Ramm you should do so. Then you need to work your way through fifty years of structuralism, anti-[post]-structuralism, Derridaism, post-Derridaism, including the reactionaries like E.D. Hirsch and the members of his fan club [did he have one?], eventually you will need to read more or less everything by Vanhoozer, not just “Is There Meaning …” but take Vanhoozer too seriously, also Craig Bartholomew on Ecclesiastes, when you are done with that you should look into Relevance Theory, a 20 year old branch of semantic theory (linguistics), I would guess this would entail about 10 thousand pages of reading, roughly three times what I had to read for three hour class in Hermeneutics 34 years ago.

By: “The Living God” :: Now and Then | Withering Fig

“The Living God” :: Now and Then | Withering Fig — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:50:23 +0000

[...] me think of some of the hermeneutical issues that I’ve been having (see my previous article “Canonizing Culture” for more on that). God’s word here seems to have a different impact now than it might have [...]