Theological Hermeneutics : SCM Press : 9780334016243 : 033401624X : 05 Mar 1994 : Until now only available in hardback, this book offers the first comprehensive introduction to the history and significance of hermeneutical thinking in theology. It begins by explaining the scope and terminology of hermeneutics, and then discusses the treatment of text interpretation throughout the history of Christian theology and philosophy. The contributions made by theologians such as Origen, Augustine, Schleiermacher, Bath, Bultmann, Lindbeck and Tracy receive particular attention, as do those by philosophers such as Dilthey, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamar, Habermas and Ricoeur. In a second move the author examines the significance of text linguistics and of modern and postmodern reading theories for theological hermeneutics in order to develop his own proposal for a critical theory of text interpretation. Here he analyses in particular the contributions made by such thinkers as de Saussure, Levi-Stra