In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In \"Doing What Comes Naturally,\" Stanley Fish refuses the dilemma posed by this question and argues that while we can never separate our judgments from the contexts in which they are made, those judgments are nevertheless authoritative and even, in the only way that matters, objective. He thus rejects both the demand for an ahistorical foundation, and the conclusion that in the absence of such a foundation we reside in an indeterminate world. In a succession of provocative and wide-ranging chapters, Fish explores the implications of his position for our understanding of legal, literary, and psychoanalytic interpretation, the nature of professional and institutional culture, and the place of reason in a world that is rhetorical through and through.

Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies

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Hermeneutics of Doctrine in a Learning Church The Dynamics of Receptive Integrity

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Giving Permission for Creative Preaching in the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod: Returning to Our Creative Roots

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Martin Luther's Contribution to Public Ethics Today

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 represents a challenge as well as an opportunity for contemporary ecumenism. The challenge is how to remember the Reformation in a way that neither ...

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation: An ecumenical event?

The following essay deals with one of the questions raised by the work of Stanley Fish, who ranks among the most important figures in North American literary theory over the past thirty years: the question of the status of the text. Fish has been perhaps the most prominent advocate for the thesis that the text is simply the product of the interpretive strategies brought to bear upon it by the reader, thereby reducing the text to the status of a tabula rasa, essentially a nonentity, which is nothing more than the (finally arbitrary) occasion for the expression of independently constructed and institutionally embodied norms. Fish developed his case in the context of an attack on 'formalism,' meaning any attempt to ground the reader's interpretation in features objectively inhering in the text itself. Interpretation indisputably exhibits certain 'forms' (definable and in principle replicable patterns); while the formalists (at the time the majority of literary critics) found the source of these forms in the ...

On the Matter of the Text

Evangelii Gaudium sketches a vision of ecclesial renewal through deepening participation in evangelization. This vision is supported by a theology of renewal that holds together human and divine agency and distinguishes persons, practices and structures; a theology of the church that finds its identity in the dynamic of evangelization; and a theology of newness that focuses on the incarnation and the good news that proclaims it. While these foundations build on significant previous sources, there is something both creative and distinctive in how Pope Francis weaves them together. Although the parallels with recent WCC documents in related areas are not all that strong and the presentation of ecumenism itself in Evangelii Gaudium is rather marginal, there is an opportunity for reconnecting ecumenism to renewal through sharing its vision and the journey that might follow from it, as consideration of the Church of England’s recent Programme of Reform and Renewal indicates.

Whatʼs New about Renewal in Evangelii Gaudium

The eclipse of interest in Joseph Butler's analysis of the relation of conscience and action and the dismissal of his ethics on the grounds that the argument is flawed by circularity and/or the naturalistic fallacy are both a consequence of the failure of scholars to attend to the complex design of his work considered as a whole. The seldom studied Sermon XV is pivotal to understanding Butler's conception of failure and possibility. While it builds on the familiar arguments of Sermons I- III, the last sermon sets aside the analogy of the watch to explore the problem of virtue in light of Old Testament wisdom narratives that establish the vanity of human endeavor and the limitations of the human condition. Sermon XV not only alters our reading of those that precede it but also binds Butler's reflections on ethics to his later reflections on religious truth.

JOSEPH BUTLER'S CASE FOR VIRTUE Conscience as a Power of Sight in a Darkened World

The ‘Appeal to All Christian People’ that was issued by the Lambeth Conference a hundred years ago reflected a deep sense of the ecumenical vocation of Anglicanism. Three interlinking elements were...

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The 500th anniversary of the Reformation: An ecumenical event?

On the Matter of the Text

Whatʼs New about Renewal in Evangelii Gaudium

JOSEPH BUTLER'S CASE FOR VIRTUE Conscience as a Power of Sight in a Darkened World

The centenary of the ‘Appeal to All Christian People’ and the ecumenical vocation of Anglicanism: