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

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E d i t e d b y B . K E I T H P U T T Gazing Through a Prism Darkly Reflections on Merold Westphal’s Hermeneutical Epistemology FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York 2009 Copyright 䉷 2009 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gazing through a prism darkly : reflections on Merold Westphal’s hermeneutical epistemology / edited by B. Keith Putt.—1st ed. p. cm.— (Perspectives in continental philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-3045-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Westphal, Merold. 2. Philosophical theology. 3. Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) 4. Hermeneutics—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Putt, B. Keith. BT50.G38 2009 230.01—dc22 2009006196 Printed in the United States of America 11 10 09 5 4 3 2 1 First edition For Spencer to see his smile is to gaze through a prism brightly ...