ABSTRACT
Rigorous scholarly attention has been devoted to the interrelated com - ponents of language and relationality that comprise the dynamics of theological reflection on discourse. This scholarship expands across reli - gious and theological specialization and ministry, much of which is informed, in part, by social scientific, literary and philosophical research.1
Prominent contributions include those of Paul Ricoeur in the areas of structuralism, hermeneutics and a “poetics of the will,” which have elicited such publications as Oneself as Another (1992) and Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative and Imagination (1995). Such studies are notably rooted in his concern with the discursive phenomenon at the heart of human experience and identified in Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation (1981):
