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Toward a Hermeneutic of the Idea of Revelation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricoeur
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The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill 60637
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Extract

The question of revelation is a formidable question in the proper sense of the word, not only because it may be seen as the first and last question for faith, but also because it has been obscured by so many false debates that the recovery of a real question in itself constitutes an enormous task. My lecture today will be devoted to just this enterprise.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 70 , Issue 1-2 , April 1977 , pp. 1 - 37
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1977

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* The material in this lecture was first presented to the “Symposium sur l'idée de la révélation” at the Faculté Universitaire St. Louis in Brussells, on February 17, 1976, then in a somewhat condensed form as the Dudleian Lecture at the Harvard University Divinity School on November 11, 1976. The translation is by David Pellauer.

1 See his “Les relations de temps dans le verb français,” in Problèmes de linguistique générate (Paris: Gallimard, 1966) 237–50.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., 241.

3 Sémantique structurale (Paris: Larousse, 1966).Google Scholar

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5 Neher, André, L'Essence du Prophétisme (Paris: P.U.F., 1955).Google Scholar

6 See, e.g., my recent book, Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1976).Google Scholar

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9 New Haven: Yale University, 1970.

10 Ibid., 43–44.

11 Ibid., 46.

12 Ibid.

13 Ibid.

14 New York: Seabury, 1975.

15 “Phénoménologie et herméneutique,” in Orth, Ernst W., ed., Phänomenologische Forschungen I: Phänomenologie heute: Grundlagen und Methodenprobleme (Freiburg/Munich: Alber, 1975) 38. English trans.Google Scholar: “Phenomenology and Hermeneutics,” Nous 9, 1 (April 1975) 88–89; trans, altered.Google Scholar

16 Paris: P.U.F., 1955, p. 148.

17 Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1966.

18 Ibid., 267.

19 Ibid., 279.

20 Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Judgment (trans, by J. H. Bernard; New York: Hafner, 1966) 157.Google Scholar

21 Ibid., 158.