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Seeing things as they are : G.K. Chesterton and the drama of meaning by Duncan Reyburn.

By: Reyburn, Duncan [author.]Series: Publication details: Eugene, Oregon Cascade Books 2016 Description: 298 pages ; 23 cmISBN: 149823190X; 9781498231909; 1498231888; 9781498231886Subject(s): Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
Contents:
Introduction -- Context of Chesterton's hermeneutic -- Foundation of Chesterton's hermeneutic -- Task of Chesteron's hermeneutic -- Tools of Chesterton's hermeneutic -- Event of understanding in Chesterton's hermeneutic -- Conclusion: the grace of mediation.
Summary: "In this book, I set up an unexpected marriage between the work of G. K. Chesterton and philosophical hermeneutics to answer this question: What can we learn from Chesterton about navigating and participating in the conditions and coordinates of interpretive understanding? Put more succinctly: What, in Chesterton's view, is required for us to perceive things clearly, as they are?"--Preface.
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Enclosures: first page [handwritten note, from the author, in black pen] Father Jerome, My father brought my book on a trip to Oxford for you and the Chesterton Library. I hope you are well D.

Introduction -- Context of Chesterton's hermeneutic -- Foundation of Chesterton's hermeneutic -- Task of Chesteron's hermeneutic -- Tools of Chesterton's hermeneutic -- Event of understanding in Chesterton's hermeneutic -- Conclusion: the grace of mediation.

"In this book, I set up an unexpected marriage between the work of G. K. Chesterton and philosophical hermeneutics to answer this question: What can we learn from Chesterton about navigating and participating in the conditions and coordinates of interpretive understanding? Put more succinctly: What, in Chesterton's view, is required for us to perceive things clearly, as they are?"--Preface.