But more than that, this is a novel about people who have wasted massive chunks of their lives--Duncan in sterile rock-critic hermeneutics (he's like the worst-case-scenario future .
They are usually young, steeped in the Bible and hip to the latest twists of German hermeneutics, at home both in academe and in the churches of the slum-ridden "inner city.
If they are interpreting the Bible, hermeneutics is the term.
Pope Paul VI in renewamerica.us The Pope called one camp "the hermeneutics of discontinuity and rupture," and the other one which has borne fruit, "the hermeneutics of reform."
Paul Ricoeur in Times Online They are systematically cynical about appearances, instances of what Paul Ricoeur called the "hermeneutics of suspicion".