Sacred Language, Sacred World The Unity of Scriptural and Philosophical Hermeneutics

includes index and biblioraphy

1. How to read this Book ..........1 Narrative and world ............8 A table of Interpretation .............12 2. Being and Time .............19 On the Very possibility of Reading wrongly .........19 What sort of Book is Being and Time .........28 The Argument in Being and Time ...............33 3. Tools in the world.................41 A Phenomenology of Tools...........41 The Inhabited Taxonomy: A Reading of 18.............72 Language as an Everyday tool ........78 4. Scripture in the world ........83 The one thing named by Scripture, tradition and reason ..............83 The unity of Background Commitments .......96 Language and taxonomy ........100 Finite Reasoning .........106 5. Truth and Method ......117 Looking back, Looking forward ...........117 Gadamer............122 The scope and argument of Truth and Method .....124 Preliminary concerns ..........127 6. Reading rightly .............131 The hermeneutical Circle and the Ethics of Thought .............131 Gadamer`s First ethical Principle: Start Right .................133 The first principle continued ...........136 The second Ethical Principle ..........139 7. Reading in the World ............151 The principle of Wirkungsgeschichte.............151 Alterity in the Metaphor of horizons...........................162 The logic of Unity .............172 8. The pitt Rivers museum ..........187 Cutting the Gordian knot of Self- Consciousness..........187 What can Theologians say ............198 Sacred language, Sacred world ................210