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 Swarthmore CollegeWorks   Religion Faculty Works   10-1-1992  Review Of "Hermeneutics And The Disclosure Of Truth: A Study In The Work Of Heidegger, Gadamer, And Ricoeur" By J. I. DiCenso  Mark I. Wallace Swarthmore College, mwallac1@swarthmore.edu   Let us know how access to this work benefits you.  Follow this and additional works at: http://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-religion   Part of the Religion Commons   Recommended Citation Mark I. Wallace. (1992). "Review Of "Hermeneutics And The Disclosure Of Truth: A Study In The Work Of Heidegger, Gadamer, And Ricoeur" By J. I. DiCenso". Journal of Religion. Volume 72, Issue 4. 645-645. http://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-religion/168  This work is brought to you for free and open access by the Swarthmore College Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in Religion Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Works. For more information, please contact myworks@swarthmore.edu. Review Author(s): Mark I. Wallace Review by: Mark I. Wallace Source: The Journal of Religion, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Oct., 1992), p. 645 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1204679 Accessed: 16-06-2015 20:21 UTCYour use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.This content downloaded from 130.58.65.20 on Tue, 16 Jun 2015 20:21:10 UTCAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsThe University of Chicago Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Religion.http://www.jstor.orgThis content downloaded from 130.58.65.20 on Tue, 16 Jun 2015 20:21:10 UTCAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsGILL, JERRY H. Mediated Transcendence: A Postmodern Reflection. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1989. 155 pp. $26.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). Jerry Gill contends that modern, dualistic paradigms of "Being," "Knowing," "Doing," and "Saying" force us to conceptualize transcendence in such a manner that divine activity ceases to bear meaningfully upon human activity. For exam-ple, these paradigms cannot provide conceptual vehicles capable of expressing the interpenetration of the "realms" of fact and value in our activity. Gill explores our embodied, social, and linguistic experience for "a truly incar-national model" of our experience of divine activity (p. 36) that conceives transcendence "in immanent terms" (p. 44). Creatively integrating insights of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael Polanyi, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and American pragmatism, he invites us to recognize how transcendence presents itself in and through a dimension of our experience that depends on others, like embodiment and sociality, while being both richer and more comprehensive than they are. Gill offers throughout this refreshingly readable work both a provocative analy-sis of current problems regarding discourse about transcendence and a stimulat-ing proposal toward their resolution. JANE E. JADLOS, Pinehurst, North Carolina. CARR, ANNE, and SCHUSSLER FIORENZA, ELIZABETH, eds. Motherhood: Experience, Institution, and Theology. Concillium 206. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1989. 154 pp. $11.95 (paper). In this series of essays the contributing authors describe the experience of moth-ering (being and having) and the institution of motherhood (in church and soci-645 Book Notes DICENSO, JAMES J. Hermeneutics and the Disclosure of Truth: A Study in the Work of Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990. 308 pp. $32.50 (cloth). This book examines the "disclosure theory of truth" in hermeneutical philoso-phy and theology. Correspondence theorists (e.g., Plato) maintain that truth consists in the agreement between mind and reality. But this model suffers from its inability to account for the perspectival nature of knowledge. Coherence theorists (e.g., G. W. F. Hegel) are better at specifying the conceptual frameworks within which knowledge occurs, but they are eventually undermined by looking to a total sys-tem that conditions all experience. Disclosure thinkers (e.g., Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and especially Paul Ricoeur) supersede both options by isolating the problem of literary interpretation as paradigmatic of the quest for truth. Truth is coterminous with what happens in the encounter between read-ers and texts: the disclosure of worlds or interpretive paradigms that project new perspectives on reality. Pragmatists and evidentialists might want a more sustained examination of their models in a book about contemporary theories of truth. But within its hermeneutical compass, James DiCenso's project is a satisfying exploration of the relevant issues. MARK I. WALLACE, Swarthmore College. 

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