ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that implicit in any model of interpretation are concepts of meaning which depend on the relationships perceived between truth, reality, textuality and ethics, and that to speak of truth is necessarily to speak of God. Reality generates proliferations of interpretations, none of which is or ever could be self-identical with the object of interpretation. The model on which Ian Markham’s analysis implicitly builds is one in which a given object in the world gives rise to multiple interpretations. A universe figured purely as arbitrary provides less basis to consider the world coherent than a non-arbitrary interpretation. Therefore discursive realism, like critical realism, can forge a link between the drive to make sense of the universe and God. The problem with all hypostasization of meaning is that it ignores the process of production at the site of interpretation and posits closure as the goal of right interpretation.
