Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricoeur offers perspectives on the twenty-one papers collected by Mark I. Wallace in Paul Ricoeur's Figuring the Sacred, translated by David Pellauer; this new collection by Joseph A. Edelheit, James Moore, and Mark I. Wallace gives Ricoeur scholars an opportunity to reflect and engage on critical issues of Ricoeur's religious ideas. Contributions by several significant Ricoeur scholars prompt questions and invite new conversations more than 15 years after Ricoeur's death. His life-long engagement with texts illuminates his embrace of the Sacred; his significant thinking and writings on Religious imagination, Theology, the Bible, Hope, and Praxis are all ideas that beg more reading, reflection, and refiguring of our understanding of Ricoeur. Wallace brings two additional essays that could not be included in his original collection and reflects on why they are essential to our understanding of Ricoeur and the Sacred. Refiguring the Sacred also provides a model of the interfaith and multidisciplinary dialogue that were foundational to Paul Ricoeur's scholarship.
Joseph A. Edelheit is emeritus professor of religious and Jewish studies at St. Cloud State University. James Moore is senior research professor of theology at Valparaiso University. Mark I. Wallace is James Hormel professor of social justice in the Department of Religion at Swarthmore College.
Part One Introduction to Part One: All You Have Is the Text: Paul Ricoeur's Relationship with The Sacred Joseph A. Edelheit and James Moore Chapter One: Paul Ricoeur's Biblical Theology and Jewish Theology Steven Kepnes Chapter Two: Ricoeur and the Religious Imagination George H. Taylor Chapter Three: The Bible: A Polyphonic Medium for Self-Identification Timo Helenius Chapter Four: Ricoeur and Hope: Living after Rupture Stephanie Arel Chapter Five: Practical Theology as Practical Poetics: Building a Bridge between Prose, Poetics, and Praxis Dan R. Stiver Part Two Introduction to Part Two: The Crisis of Faith in a World Where God is Not Yet God Mark I. Wallace Chapter Six: The Self in the Mirror of the Scriptures Paul Ricoeur, Translated by David Pellauer Chapter Seven: Fides Quaerens Intellectum: Biblical Antecedent? Paul Ricoeur, Translated by David Pellauer Afterword: Continuing Conversations with Paul Ricoeur Joseph A. Edelheit and James Moore
This book offers a feast of vital engagements with Ricoeur's hermeneutics of religion, providing critical insights into his relationship with theology, biblical studies, and phenomenology of the sacred. Refiguring the Sacred offers a timely and vigorous contribution to contemporary debates on faith and what comes after. -- Richard Kearney, Boston College
