Gazing Through a Prism Darkly: Reflections on Merold Westphal's Hermeneutical Epistemology

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Notes The Benefit of the Doubt: Merold Westphal’s Prophetic Philosophy of Religion / B. Keith Putt 1. Merold Westphal, God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984), 2. 2. Merold Westphal, ‘‘Phenomenologies and Religious Truth,’’ in Phenomenology of the Truth Proper to Religion, ed. Daniel Guerrière (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), 105. 3. Merold Westphal, Kierkegaard’s Critique of Reason and Society (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991), 7. 4. Ibid., 3. 5. Merold Westphal, ‘‘Taking Suspicion Seriously: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism,’’ Faith and Philosophy 4 (January 1987): 29. 6. Westphal, God, Guilt, and Death, 13. 7. Ibid., 12. 8. Westphal, Kierkegaard’s Critique, 21. 9. Merold Westphal, ‘‘Prolegomena to Any Future Philosophy of Religion Which Will Be Able to Come Forth as Prophecy,’’ International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (Fall 1973): 141. This article is reprinted in an edited form as the first chapter of Kierkegaard’s Critique of Reason and Society. In the book, Westphal omits the confession that his prophetic prescription is a thought experiment ; however, given the nature of his paradigm shift, it is not inappropriate to interpret his approach using the earlier characterization. 10. Westphal, Kierkegaard’s Critique, 12–18. 11. Paul Ricoeur, History and Truth, trans. Charles A. Kelbley (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1965), 42. 207 12. Paul Ricoeur, ‘‘Appropriation,’’ in A Ricoeur Reader: Reflection and Imagination , ed. Mario J. Valdes (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991), 98. 13. Paul Ricoeur, ‘‘Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology,’’ in Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 74. 14. Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation, trans. Denis Savage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970), 526–527. 15. Paul Ricoeur, ‘‘Hope and the Structure of Philosophical Systems,’’ in Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination, ed. Mark I. Wallace (Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 1995), 211. 16. Ricoeur, History and Truth, 176. 17. Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy, 26. 18. Ibid., 33. 19. Ricoeur, History and Truth, 55, 181. 20. Paul Ricoeur, ‘‘Freedom in the Light of Hope,’’ in The Conflict of Interpretations (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1974), 412. 21. Ibid., 409–411. 22. Ricoeur, ‘‘Hope and the Structure of Philosophical Systems,’’ 205–206. 23. Paul Ricoeur, ‘‘Religion, Atheism, and Faith,’’ in The Religious Significance of Atheism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969), 60, 69. 24. Paul Ricoeur, ‘‘Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology,’’ in Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences, 63. 25. Merold Westphal, ‘‘Socrates Between Jeremiah and Descartes: The Dialectic of Self-Consciousness and Self-Knowledge,’’ in Philosophy and Theology 204. 26. Merold Westphal, ‘‘The Ostrich and the Boogeyman: Placing Postmodernism ,’’ Christian Scholars Review 20 (1990): 115; see also Merold Westphal, ‘‘Deconstruction and Christian Cultural Theory: An Essay on Appropriation,’’ in Pledges of Jubilee: Essays on the Arts and Culture, in Honor of Calvin G. Seerveld, ed. Lambert Zuidervaart and Henry Luttikhuizen (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans , 1995), 108–109. 27. Merold Westphal, ‘‘Postmodernism and Religious Reflection,’’ International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 38 (1995): 131. 28. Westphal, Kierkegaard’s Critique, 89. 29. Merold Westphal, ‘‘Faith Seeking Understanding,’’ in God and the Philosophers : The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason, ed. Thomas V. Morris (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 218–219. 30. Merold Westphal, ‘‘Christian Philosophers and the Copernican Revolution ,’’ in Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge, ed. C. Stephan Evans and Merold Westphal (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993), 167. 31. Ibid., 176. 32. Westphal, ‘‘The Ostrich and the Boogeyman,’’ 115. 33. Merold Westphal, ‘‘Onto-theo-logical Straw: Reflections on Presence and Absence,’’ in Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy, ed. Roman T. Ciapolo (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1997), 264–265. 208 Notes 34. Westphal, ‘‘Deconstruction and Christian Cultural Theory,’’ 118–119. 35. Merold Westphal, ‘‘Positive Postmodernism as Radical Hermeneutics,’’ in The Very Idea of Radical Hermeneutics, ed. Roy Martinez (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1997), 52. 36. Westphal, ‘‘Postmodernism and Religious Reflection,’’ 134. 37. Westphal, ‘‘Deconstruction and Christian Cultural Theory,’’ 117. 38. Westphal, ‘‘Positive Postmodernism as Radical Hermeneutics,’’ 61. 39. Westphal, ‘‘Postmodernism and Religious Reflection,’’ 127. 40. Ibid., 134. 41. Westphal, ‘‘Phenomenologies and Religious Truth,’’ 114. 42. Ibid., 117. 43. Westphal, ‘‘Positive Postmodernism as Radical Hermeneutics,’’ 48. 44. Westphal, ‘‘Socrates Between Jeremiah and Descartes,’’ 204. 45. Westphal, ‘‘Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge,’’ 177. 46. Merold Westphal, ‘‘Taking St. Paul...