ESSAYS ON BIBLICAL INTRPRETATION

First published 1980. 8vo, ix, 1-182p. Cream colored wrappers blocked in double line blue and with black letters on the front cover and the rear cover. Just hints of wear to the extremities, wrappers clean and bright, corners square and flat, previous owner's name on the half title page, else fine with no internal markings. An important collection of essays on biblical interpretation by one of the leading scholars of our day. Paul Ricouer was philosopher and theologian in the University of Chicago where he was successor to Paul Tillich, and in the Faculty of Arts at ,Paris-Nanterre. " Lewis S. Mudge attempts to provide the reader with a coherent overview of my writings. It is precisely this attempt which requires my heartily felt thanks, because I am unable to draw such a sketch on my own. Mudge brings to the forefront the category of testimony. I found this interpretation very illuminating for my own self understanding. By picking this category, Mudge shows how some of the problems which I discussed at different times and within different frameworks may be regrouped in some few constellations." [Paul Ricoeur on the rear cover].…