Preliminaries; Preface; 1 Theological hermeneutics in the twilight of modernity; 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; 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; Contents
Summary
This book explores the contemporary crisis of biblical interpretation by looking at several modern and postmodern thinkers who played key roles in creating a radically suspicious reading of the Bible. Garrett Green discusses the various forms of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion', and considers the implications for the future of theology
