The topic of revelation is fundamental to any account of religious experience, playing a special role in the Judeo-Christian tradition where the texts of Scripture are regarded as revealed. Yet, any reflection on the revealed status of a given message or text requires interpretation. Paul Ricoeur, one of the most important hermeneutic philosophers of the twentieth century, provides crucial insights on how such interpretation might proceed and what it might mean for texts to be revealed. Edited by Christina M. Gschwandtner, Paul Ricoeur, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and the Question of Revelation brings together major scholars of Ricoeur's work on the topic of revelation, showing both the role it already plays in his work and how his thinking might be taken further. Several contributors trace the development of his thought in regard to the concept of revelation. Others discuss the revelatory dimensions of Ricoeur's hermeneutics of the self, especially for such issues as identity, trauma, and forgiveness. Several contributions also place his work in conversation with that of other seminal thinkers on the topic of revelation, such as Karl Barth and Paul Tillich.
Christina M. Gschwandtner teaches continental philosophy of religion at Fordham University.
Introduction by Christina M. Gschwandtner Part I: The Question of Revelation in Ricoeur's Work Chapter 1: From the "Revealed" to the "Revealing": Uses of the Notion of Revelation in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur by Daniel Frey Chapter 2: Thinking Revelation: A Catholic Reading of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy of Revelation by Knut Wenzel Chapter 3: Hermeneutics Beyond Suspicion: Meaning-making and Trust in Language by Goncalo Marcelo Part II: Revelation and the Question of the Self Chapter 4: The Poetics of the Self: On the Three Levels of Transformation in Ricoeur's Account of Faith by Samuel Underwood Chapter 5: The Poetics of Forgiveness at the Limit in Ricoeur's Thought by Sonia da Silva Monteiro Chapter 6: The Discourse of Revelation: Ricoeur's Hermeneutics Untangles Trauma, Dependence, and Love by Stephanie N. Arel Chapter 7: The Self of Revelation in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur by Otniel A. Kish Part III: Ricoeur in Conversation on the Question of Revelation Chapter 8: Revelation from the Ground Up: Embodied Hermeneutics by Dan R. Stiver Chapter 9: Preserving the Mystery: Paul Ricoeur and Paul Tillich on Revelation by Nicola Stricker Chapter 10: Meaning and Persons: The Ontology of the Word as Revelation by Brian Gregor
