(Review) "Hanz Gutierrez: The Wholistic Herbert Blomstedt of Hermeneutics"

Please copy and paste this for my brief review of a once-in-a-century philosophical and theological achievement. Thank you!

https://spectrummagazine.org/arts-essays/2023/hanz-gutierrez-wholistic-herbert-blomstedt-hermeneutics

This is the Table of Contents:

Introduction
The “Beyond” the Text and the “On this “Side” of interpretation
for a Hermeneutics of life

1. The “Beyond” the Text
2. The “On this Side” of Interpretation
3. The “On this Side” and the “Beyond” of Being
4. The “On this Side” and the “Beyond” of the meaning of life:
   A Hermeneutics of the South

PART I
THE HERMENEUTIC CIRCLE: THE TEXT AND THE READER

i. What is Hermeneutics?

1. A theological-cultural look at hermeneutics
2. Reading the Bible
3. Interpreting the Bible
4. The dual hermeneutical nature of Christianity
5. The “hermeneutic circle”

ii. History of Hermeneutics

1. A theological-cultural look at the history of hermeneutics
2. Pre-modern period. A “text-centric” hermeneutic
3. Modern period. A “reader-centric” hermeneutic
4. Interpretive fragmentation. Pluralism and hermeneutical polytheism.
5. Interpretive compactness. Sola Scriptura and hermeneutical monolithism

iii. A “formative text”

1. A theological-cultural look at the text
2. The text and its autonomy
3. The text and multiple recipients
4. The text and broken referentiality
5. Informational texts and formative texts:
   the why of Being “in reading”

iv. a “vital reader”

1. A theological-cultural look at the reader
2. The reader and his rooting “upstream” of the text:
   pre-understanding
3. The reader and his uprooting “in front of” the text:
   self-criticism
4. The reader and his pro-rooting “beyond” the text:
   imagination
5. The obedient reader and the vital reader: the why of Creativity “in reading”

PART II
INTERPRETED LANGUAG AND INTERPRETING LANGUAGE

v. The interpreted language

1. A theological-cultural look at biblical language
2. A complex and multifaceted language
3. Word and Scripture as a tension that grounds biblical language
4. Plurivocity and sobriety as hallmarks of biblical language
5. Centripetal and centrifugal dimensions as the dual vocation of biblical language

vi. The interpreting language

1. A theological-cultural look at religious language
2. Hermeneutic levels: some characteristics
3. Three intra-textual hermeneutic levels:
   from event to paradox
4. Three extra-textual hermeneutic levels:
   from paradox to paradoxes
5. For a biblical hermeneutics of polyvalence and paradox

vii. Hermeneutic anomalies “By Excess” of Text:
Textual Positivism

1. A theological-cultural look at textual reductionism
2. Biblical literalism:
   formal inerrancy
3. Biblical confessionalism:
   confessional inerrancy
4. Biblical-theological rationalism:
   ideological inerrancy
5. Modern book-centrism: cultural inerrancy.

viii. Hermeneutic Anomalies “By Deficit” of Text.
Anthropocentric Subjectivism

1. A theological-cultural look at hermeneutic individualism
2. Biblical subjectivism:
   psychological anthropocentrism
3. Biblical confessionalism:
   ecclesiological anthropocentrism
4. Biblical Pragmatism:
   experiential anthropocentrism
5. Modern rationalism:
   cultural anthropocentrism

                                                      PART III
      TRINITY, MYSTERY AND THE UNAVAILABILTIY OF MEANING

ix. The father’s Passion and the Possibility of Meaning

1. Theological positivism: “monarchianism”
2. Monarchianism and globalization
3. Father’s complexity:
   “The good shepherd and the welcoming housewife”
4. “The heroism” of the good shepherd
5. “Anonymity” of the cozy housewife
6. From sheep to commensal:
   an anthropological metamorphosis
7. “The exuberant and sober love of the Father”:
   the contingency of meaning

x. The Grace of the Son and The Gratuitousness of Meaning

1. Christological positivism:
   the “Christocentrism”
2. Christocentrism and pathologizing
3. The complexity of the Son:
   “Jesus and Emmanuel” (Mt 1:18-23)
4. “The Purity” of Jesus
5. “The Accompaniment” of Emmanuel
6. From sinner to person:
   anthropological rebirth
7. “The exuberant and sobering grace of the Son”:
   the vulnerability of meaning

xi. The vitality of the Spirit and The Resilience of Meaning

1. Pneumatological positivism:
   the “sanctification”
2. Sanctification and regulation
3. The complexity of the Spirit:
   “The Holy Spirit and the Spirit of life” (Rev. 11:1-11)
4. “The order” of the Spirit of holiness
5. “The unpredictability” of the Spirit of life
6. From saintly to vital:
   anthropological flourishing.
7. “The exuberant and sobering communion of the Spirit”:
   the miraculousness of meaning.

xii. Reading the Bible from the South. The Eros of interpretation

1. Chronicity and persistence of hermeneutic nihilism in late modernity
2. A dysfunctional trinity:
   the death of things
3. A dysfunctional Bible:
   the canon against the Spirit
4. Auferstehung and the “pneumatological turn”:
   against the necrophilia of sense
5. Beyond the Bible.
   The birth of a third testament.
6. Beyond the West.
   Of the possibility of other knowledges
7. The resonance of meaning:
   sabbath, advent and Unverfügbarkeit

The Bibliography is 22 pages long. It includes 37 “B” surnames with several of them having more than one publication. These are: Bacchiocchi, Barker, Barr, Barth, Battaglia, Bauckham, Bellinger, Benedict, Benjamin, Benneniste, Berkhof, Besnier, Bettelheim, Bettini, Bhabha, Blankholm, Bloesch, Bloom, Bock, Bordei, Bollas, Bonhoeffer, Bonomi, Bordoni, Boring, Bourguin, Blouyer, Branecto, Bravo, Brueggemann, Bock, Bulgakov and Bultmann. There are, of course, twenty-five more letters in the Bibliography each of which has about as many entries.