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J. Richard Middleton & Brian J. Walsh, Truth Is Stranger Than It Used To Be:
Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,
1995).
Steven Best and Douglas Kellner, The Postmodern Turn (New York: Guildford
Press, 1997).
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A recent example of someone working from this perspective, while also taking
into full consideration the recent developments in hermeneutics is Grant R.
Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical
Interpretation (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1991), 5-15.
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Moiss Silva, "Old Princeton, Westminster, and Inerrancy," ed. Harvie M. Conn,
Inerrancy and Hermeneutic: A Tradition, A Challenge, A Debate (Grand Rapids,
MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 67-80.
See for example, D.A. Carson, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts
Pluralism (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996).
See Hans Frei, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1980); and George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and
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Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm, B.
Eerdmans, 1989), 72.
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Although Gilbert Ryle was the first to use the phase, "thick description," Geertz
was certainly the one to popularize it. See Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of
Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973), 3-30.
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See Edgar V. McKnight, Post-Modem Use of the Bible. The Emergence of ReaderOriented Criticism (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1988).
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Grondin, Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics, 3.
24 Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Stambaugh (Albany: SUNY Press,
1996), 153; a n d as quoted in Grodin, Introduction to Philosophical
Hermeneutics, 97.
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ibid, 69.
Ibid.
Ibid, 85.
Heitink, Practical Theology, 181-190.
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Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Stambaugh (Albany: SUNY Press,
1996).
Grondin, Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics, 97-98.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 53.
Grondin, Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics, 98.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 220.
Heitink, Practical Theology, 134.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, eds. G. Barden and J. Cumming (New
York: Seabury Press, 1975).
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119.
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Jrgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests, trans. J.S. Shapiro (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1972).
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Jrgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, 2 vols., trans. Thomas
McCarthy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984 a n d 1987).
57 Heitink, Practical Theology, 133-135.
58 ibid., 135-137.
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Quantitative
Positivism
Postposivism
Constructivism
Advocacy
Pragmatism
One
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Y.S. Lincoln and E.G. Guba, Naturalistic Inquiry (Beverly Hills: Sage
Publications, 1985).
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See both Tashakkori and Teddlie, Mixed Methodology, and Creswell, Research
Design.
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Herbert J Rubin and Irene S Rubin, Qualitative Interviewing The Art of Hearing
Data, 2nd ed (Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications, 2005), 27
Ibid
See both Tashakkon and Teddlie, Mixed Methodology, and Cresswell, Research
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