The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic

by James K. A. Smith

Overview

In this provocative book James K. A. Smith, one of the most engaging Christian scholars of our day, offers an innovative approach to hermeneutics. The second edition of Smith's well-received debut book provides updated interaction with contemporary hermeneutical discussions and responds to criticisms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441236326
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

James K. A. Smith (PhD, Villanova University) is the Gary & Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology & Worldview at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition, he is editor of Comment magazine and a senior fellow of the Colossian Forum. He is the author or editor of many books, including the Christianity Today award winners Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? and Desiring the Kingdom, and editor of the well-received Church and Postmodern Culture series (www.churchandpomo.org).
James K. A. Smith (PhD, Villanova University) is a popular speaker and the award-winning author of a number of influential books, including Desiring the Kingdom, How (Not) to Be Secular, You Are What You Love, On the Road with Saint Augustine, and How to Inhabit Time. He is professor of philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. Smith served as editor in chief of Comment magazine (2013-2018) and Image journal (2019-2024). He has written for Christianity Today, the Christian Century, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Reconsiderations: An Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction: Interpretation and the Fall
Part 1: The Fallenness of Hermeneutics
1. Paradise Regained
2. Through a Mirror Darkly
Part 2: A Hermeneutics of Fallenness
3. Falling into the Garden
4. Edenic Violence
Part 3: Toward a Creational Hermeneutic
5. Interpreting the Fall
6. Interpretation in Eden
7. Limited Inc/arnation: From Creation to Ecclesia
Index