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

by Kevin J. Vanhoozer

Postodernity feels obligated to question modernity (and even the classics) in the name of multicultural fairness.

otherness

The “morality” of literary knowledge.

The postmodern critic sees through knowledge claims that are in fact only camouflage for institutional power, symptoms of political struggle.

We wait on “spirit”—a “real presence,” mediated to us through signs, sounds, and shapes.

Many postmodernists accept that texts are spiritual (theological), but then proceed to dismiss God’s existence, or his influence.

Deconstruction, wholly inadvertently and with

some irony, proves that God is the condition for the possibility of meaning and interpretation.10

to explore the theology that undergirds this “other faith,” the wager on transcendence, and to do so from an explicitly Christian perspective.

Vanlhoozer’s goal in part 2 of the book: to explore the theology that undergirds this “other faith,” the wager on transcendence, and to do so from an explicitly Christian perspective.