What English Readers Need to Know about Mistakes in Gadamer’s Truth and Method
H.-G. Gadamer’s Truth and Method is a key text on hermeneutical theory. The newest English edition is a wonderful resource, but it’s not without problems.
Truth-and-Method
An introduction to Gadamer
St. Johns Nottingham has a helpful introduction to the life and philosophy of H.-G. Gadamer.
Aubrey on theological lexica
Mike Aubrey has provided an excerpt from an essay of his in聽Linguistics & Biblical Exegesis (Lexham, 2016). The excerpt strives carefully to work out a middle ground that is neither wholly on the side of theological lexica nor on that of James Barr’s critique of them.
...In the (e)mail: Rodr铆guez and Thiessen, “The So-called Jew”
In addition to Boccaccini and Segovia’s Paul the Jew,聽inbox recently saw the arrival from聽Fortress Press聽of a review copy of Rafael Rodr铆guez and Matthew Thiessen’s edited volume聽The So-Called Jew in Paul’s Letter to the Romans(2016).聽According to the book’s blurb:
Gadamer on the F眉hrerprinzip
The notorious statement, “The party (or the Leader) is always right” is not wrong because it claims that a certain leadership is superior, but because it serves to shield the leadership, by a dictatorial decree, from any criticism that might be true. ( 389n22)
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