Is There a Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge

From: Trinity Journal | Date: October 1, 2000| Author: Vidu, Adonis | Copyright information

Kevin Vanhoozer. Is There a Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998. 496 pp. $29.99.

There have been plenty of contemporary attempts to write theology and hermeneutics which either take an overdose of postmodernism or display a blindly arrogant conservatism. Thankfully, this is not such a book. This is a text which seeks to listen to what others are saying. This attempt is all the more commendable since the di...

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