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Hermeneutics is not really concerned with hermeneutics...but with how we might make sense of our lives in such a way that life can go on...

David Geoffrey Smith, 1999

The journal features the work of hermeneutics in its application to topics that inhabit our lives and professions. It is when hermeneutics is put to work through the act of interpreting living features of the world that its strengths and character appear. Articles in this journal make the subtle interpretability of the world visible and available.

 

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CALL FOR PAPERS: 17th ANNUAL CANADIAN HERMENEUTIC INSTITUTE

2025-11-17

The 17th Annual Canadian Hermeneutic Institute will be held June 3-5, 2026 at the Aloft University Hotel, Calgary, Alberta, Canada with Dr. Graham McCaffrey as the invited scholar this year. His title for the morning lectures is Here Comes Everybody: Applied Hermeneutics as Reception to the World. We invite abstracts for paper presentations and ask that the papers align with the content of the lectures.

Registration is now open and we are accepting abstract submissions.

 

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