Theology, Hermeneutics, and Imagination : The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Theological hermeneutics in the twilight of modernity; Part I. The Modern Roots of Suspicion; 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; Part II. Christian Imagination in a Postmodern World: 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.