Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics Hermes, Trickster, Fool

Grau reconsiders the relationship between "logos" and "mythos" as a precondition to opening theological hermeneutics to discourse from other cultures and genres, other modes of telling and retelling.

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Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics

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Hermes, Trickster, Fool

Marion Grau

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Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics

REFIGURING THEOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS

Copyright © Marion Grau, 2014. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–32685–0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Grau, Marion. Refiguring theological hermeneutics : Hermes, trickster, fool / Marion Grau. pages cm Includes index. ISBN 978–1–137–32685–0 (alk. paper) 1. Hermeneutics. 2. Hermes (Greek deity) 3. Hermeneutics—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title. BD241.G665 2014 230.01—dc23

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Preface: On the Poetics of Christian Theological Hermeneutics 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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Unsealing Hermeneutics Theological Hermeneutics as Pattern Recognition Logos, Mythos, and Mysticism Putting Hermes Back into Hermeneutics The Trickster as Hermeneut Fool’s Errand: Holy Fools and Divine Folly as Hermeneutical Figures 7. Reframing Mythos and Logos: Theology as Mytho-Logy 8. Reframing Theological Hermeneutics

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