| Foreword | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Abbreviations | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xix |
| Introductory Questions | |
| The Nature and Scope of the Subject | p. 3 |
| Why Philosophical Description? | p. 3 |
| Philosophy and the hermeneutical task | |
| Philosophy and the New Testament | |
| The Underlying Problem of Hermeneutics: The Two Horizons | p. 10 |
| The two-sided nature of the problem | |
| A New Testament example | |
| Some Issues Which Arise from the Hermeneutical Problem | p. 17 |
| The New Testament and pre-understanding | |
| Further Introductory Questions: Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein | p. 24 |
| Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein: Three General Points | p. 24 |
| Their importance | |
| Description and interpretation | |
| Tradition | |
| The Relation of Wittgenstein to Heidegger, Gadamer, and Bultmann | p. 33 |
| Secondary literature | |
| Language-game, horizon, and world | |
| Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, and the New Testament | p. 40 |
| The earlier and later Heidegger, Gadamer, and the Fourth Gospel | |
| Broader Issues in New Testament Hermeneutics | |
| Hermeneutics and History: the Issue of Historical Distance | p. 51 |
| The Pastness of the Past | p. 53 |
| Nineham's historical relativism | |
| Criticisms of this position | |
| The Emergence of Historical Consciousness | p. 63 |
| Lessing, Herder, Hegel, and Ranke | |
| Historical Method in Ernst Troeltsch | p. 69 |
| History versus theology | |
| Troeltsch's positivism | |
| History and Hermeneutics in Wolfhart Pannenberg | p. 74 |
| His critique of Troeltsch and rejection of dualism | |
| Hermeneutics and Theology: The Legitimacy and Necessity of Hermeneutics | p. 85 |
| The Word of God and the Holy Spirit | p. 85 |
| The Spirit's work not independent of human understanding | |
| Faith, "Timeless Truth," Time, and the Word | p. 92 |
| Replies to three further objections to hermeneutics | |
| Understanding and Pre-understanding: Schleiermacher | p. 103 |
| The hermeneutical circle; Schleiermacher's earlier and later thought | |
| Pre-understanding and Theology | p. 107 |
| Bultmann, Latin American hermeneutics, Ricoeur, and Freud | |
| Hermeneutics and Language | p. 115 |
| The Restricted Hermeneutical Role of Linguistic and Semantic Investigations: Distance, Fusion, and Reference | p. 117 |
| Linguistics and hermeneutics in Ricoeur | |
| Frei and Petersen | |
| Respecting the Particularity of the Text; Word and Context; Hermeneutics as Translation | p. 124 |
| Saussure; field semantics; Kelsey and Nida on translation | |
| The Relation between Thought and Language and Its Bearing on Pre-understanding in Hermeneutics | p. 133 |
| Whorf, Saussure, and Wittgenstein | |
| Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein | |
| Heidegger's "Being and Time": Dasein, Worldhood, and Understanding | p. 143 |
| The Question of Being from the Standpoint of Dasein | p. 143 |
| Is the question of Being meaningful? Dasein as a technical term | |
| Dasein, Hermeneutics, and Existenz | p. 149 |
| Hermeneutics and horizon; presence-at-hand | |
| World and Worldhood | p. 154 |
| The ready-to-hand and equipment | |
| Relation to sciences | |
| State-of-mind, Understanding, and Discourse | p. 161 |
| Double meaning of Befindlichkeit | |
| Fore-conception and language | |
| Further Themes in Heidegger's Earlier Thought | p. 169 |
| The Falling of Dasein: Dasein's Being as Care; Reality and Truth | p. 169 |
| Inauthentic existence | |
| Truth as "letting be" what is | |
| Being-towards-Death and Authentic Existence | p. 176 |
| An existential phenomenon | |
| Comparison with Bultmann | |
| Time, Temporality, and History | p. 181 |
| Dasein's temporality and historicity as the basis for time and history | |
| Two General Comments on "Being and Time" and Its Relevance to Hermeneutics | p. 187 |
| "World" and the subject-object relation | |
| Role of cognitive thought | |
| Further Comments on Heidegger's Thought | p. 194 |
| Hermeneutical circle; feeling-states; hermeneutics of the "I am" | |
| The Ingredients of Bultmann's Hermeneutical Concerns Prior to Heidegger's Philosophy | p. 205 |
| Bultmann's Relation to Liberal Theology and to Neo-Kantian Philosophy: Modern Man and Objectifying Thinking | p. 205 |
| Herrmann, Cohen, and Natorp | |
| Science and objectification | |
| Bultmann's Fusion of Neo-Kantian Epistemology with Nineteenth-Century Lutheranism: Objectification in Accordance with Law | p. 212 |
| Faith no objective basis in dogma | |
| First hints of dualism | |
| Bultmann's Indebtedness to the History of Religions School and to Current Biblical Scholarship: Kerygma and Myth | p. 218 |
| Strangeness of the New Testament | |
| Weiss, Wrede, Schweitzer, Schmidt | |
| Bultmann's Indebtedness to Dialectical Theology: The Final Setting of the Terms of the Hermeneutical Problem | p. 223 |
| Barth and Gogarten | |
| Talk from God, not about God | |
| Further Philosophical Ingredients in Bultmann's Hermeneutics | p. 227 |
| Differing Roles of Heidegger's Philosophy in Relation to Bultmann's Hermeneutics | p. 227 |
| Three ways of construing the role of Heidegger's thought | |
| Bultmann's Hermeneutics and the Philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey | p. 234 |
| "Life" and pre-understanding in Dilthey | |
| Legacy of Yorck | |
| Bultmann's Appeal to Collingwood's Philosophy of History | p. 240 |
| Affinities with Collingwood not to be exaggerated | |
| The Emergence of a Dualist Trend in Bultmann's View of History | p. 245 |
| History versus nature | |
| Ott, Young, and Pannenberg | |
| Bultmann's Hermeneutics and the New Testament | p. 252 |
| Bultmann's View of Myth | p. 252 |
| Three different definitions and responses to the problem | |
| Bultmann's Proposals for the Interpretation of Myth | p. 258 |
| Misunderstandings of Bultmann's aim | |
| Problem of the New Testament itself | |
| Specific Examples of Re-interpretation in the New Testament: A Critique of Bultmann's Claims about Eschatology and Christology | p. 263 |
| Three principles | |
| Objectification and contradiction | |
| Difficulties | |
| Further Examples: A Critique of Bultmann's Claims about the Cross and Resurrection | p. 269 |
| Application of the three principles and its difficulty | |
| The Use of Heidegger's Conceptuality in New Testament Theology: Paul's View of Man | p. 275 |
| Existential interpretation of sarx and soma | |
| Criticism of Gundry | |
| Some Concluding Comments | p. 283 |
| Complexity of Bultmann's position | |
| Genuine criticisms as against others | |
| Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics And Its Implications For New Testament Interpretation | p. 293 |
| The Relevance to Hermeneutics of Questions about Truth and Art | p. 293 |
| Limits of "method." | |
| History of philosophy; art and the game | |
| Gadamer's Critique of Hermeneutics from Schleiermacher to Heidegger | p. 300 |
| Criticism of Ranke, Droysen, and Dilthey | |
| Advance of Husserl, Yorck, and Heidegger | |
| The Task of Hermeneutics in the Light of Tradition and of Man's Historical Finitude | p. 304 |
| Pre-judgment not merely negative | |
| Distance and the fusion of horizons | |
| Hermeneutics and Language in Gadamer | p. 310 |
| Language and thought | |
| Question and answer | |
| Assertions | |
| Some Implications of Gadamer's Work: The Relation between Exegesis and Theology as the Problem of Fusion and Distance | p. 314 |
| Tradition and systematic theology | |
| The Reformation and Stendahl's criticism | |
| Further Considerations of the Issue: Exegesis and Theology with Special Reference to Diem, Ott, and Stuhlmacher | p. 319 |
| Wrede, Schlatter, Rahner, Schlier | |
| Barth, Diem, Ott, Stuhlmacher | |
| The Later Heidegger, Gadamer, And The New Hermeneutic | p. 327 |
| The Malaise of Language and Thinking in the Western Language Tradition | p. 330 |
| The legacy of Plato | |
| Reality and concepts | |
| Crisis of language | |
| Language-Event and a New Coming to Speech | p. 335 |
| Being and thought; "gathering" and art; language as the house of Being | |
| Further Considerations about the Hermeneutics of Fuchs and Ebeling | p. 342 |
| Einverstandnis and the parables of Jesus | |
| Related Approaches to the Hermeneutics of the Parables: Funk, Via, and Crossan | p. 347 |
| Affinities between Fuchs and Funk | |
| Via and the existential | |
| Further Assessments of the New Hermeneutic | p. 352 |
| Positive contribution, but also serious one-sidedness | |
| Philosophy And Language In Ludwig Wittgenstein | p. 357 |
| The Contrast between Wittgenstein's Earlier and Later Writings and Its Significance for Hermeneutics | p. 357 |
| Apel, and Janik and Toulmin | |
| Abstract logic versus language-games | |
| The Earlier Writings: Propositions, the Picture Theory, and the Limits of Language | p. 362 |
| The nature of propositions | |
| Logical determinacy | |
| Saying and showing | |
| Hermeneutics and the Later Writings: Language-Games and Life | p. 370 |
| The particular case | |
| Surroundings, training, application | |
| The Hermeneutical Significance of the Argument about Private Language and Public Criteria of Meaning | p. 379 |
| Public tradition versus "my own case." | |
| Wittgenstein and Bultmann | |
| Wittgenstein, "Grammar," And The New Testament | p. 386 |
| Grammar, Insight, and Understanding: Examples of a First Class of Grammatical Utterances | p. 386 |
| Eight examples in the New Testament | |
| A Second Class of Grammatical Utterance and the Respective Life-Settings of the Two Classes | p. 392 |
| Wittgenstein's On Certainty | |
| New Testament and classical literature | |
| Class-Three Grammatical Utterances: Linguistic Recommendations, Pictures, and Paradigms | p. 401 |
| Examples of the issue in the New Testament | |
| Language-Games, "the Particular Case," and Polymorphous Concepts | p. 407 |
| Examples from Wittgenstein | |
| "Faith," "flesh," and "truth" in the New Testament | |
| Language-Games and "Seeing-as": A Fresh Approach to Some Persistent Problems about Justification by Faith in Paul | p. 415 |
| Five persistent problems | |
| Verdicts within different systems | |
| Grammatical Relations and Dispositions: Faith in Paul and in James | p. 422 |
| Difference of logical grammar | |
| Dispositional accounts of faith | |
| Wittgenstein and Structuralism | p. 428 |
| Wittgenstein and the Debate about Biblical Authority | p. 432 |
| Conclusions | p. 439 |
| Bibliography | p. 464 |
| Index of Subjects | p. 467 |
| Index of Names | p. 475 |
| Index of Biblical References | p. 482 |
| Index of Ancient Non-biblical References | p. 484 |
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