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Scriptural Authority And Narrative Interpretation
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Book Synopsis Scriptural Authority and Narrative Interpretation by : Garrett Green
Download or read book Scriptural Authority and Narrative Interpretation written by Garrett Green and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-09-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authority of scripture as it intersects with hermeneutical questions about the character of biblical narrative is considered here by ten well respected theologians. The essays in this volume derive from or are in response to the theological agenda of Hans W. Frei, and are being presented in honor of him in recognition of his sixty-fifth birthday.
Book Synopsis Women and the Authority of Scripture by : Sarah Heaner Lancaster
Download or read book Women and the Authority of Scripture written by Sarah Heaner Lancaster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theological impact of accepting the absolute authority of biblical scripture is enormous-especially for women who attend and serve churches. But until now, few books have been willing to address this issue head on. Sarah Lancaster looks at the way women in the church have dealt with the question of scriptural authority and how they can address it in the future. Some women, she says, accept the authority of the Bible without question and stay in church without change of attitude or action. Others deny that the Bible has any authority, completely leaving Christianity in the belief that the Bible and Christian tradition are irredeemably patriarchal. Still others recognize that while scripture is largely patriarchal, it is authoritative for their life of faith. The Bible possesses a narrative coherence, its story resonating in our own lives. For women, the Bible can continue to "ring true" to their experience, letting them acknowledge scripture's authority in spite of its problems. The Bible is not about patriarchy; it is about how God is present to us and interacts with us in order to bring us to fullness of life. Lancaster says that women can criticize those things in scripture that help maintain a patriarchal world without invalidating scripture's authority. Scripture, she argues, informs, forms, and transforms. With its combination of narrative and feminist theology, Women and the Authority of Scripture brings a powerful new perspective to the doctrine of biblical authority in the contemporary world. Sarah Heaner Lancaster is Associate Professor of Theology, Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio. She is an ordained elder in the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. She lives in Westerville, Ohio.
Book Synopsis Narrative Theology as a Hermeneutic Approach by : David Hampton
Download or read book Narrative Theology as a Hermeneutic Approach written by David Hampton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for preachers, seminary students, laypersons, teachers, and anyone interested in biblical hermeneutics and Christian theology.
Book Synopsis The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative by : Hans W. Frei
Download or read book The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative written by Hans W. Frei and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laced with brilliant insights, broad in its view of the interaction of culture and theology, this book gives new resonance to old and important questions about the meaning of the Bible.
Book Synopsis The Drama of Scripture by : Craig G. Bartholomew
Download or read book The Drama of Scripture written by Craig G. Bartholomew and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling textbook surveys the grand narrative of the Bible, demonstrating how the biblical story forms the foundation of a Christian worldview. The second edition has been thoroughly revised. Additional material is available online through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources, offering course help for professors and study aids for students. Resources include discussion questions, a Bible reading schedule, an adult Bible class schedule, and a course syllabus.
Book Synopsis The Doctrine of Revelation by : Gabriel J. Fackre
Download or read book The Doctrine of Revelation written by Gabriel J. Fackre and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book ventures a new interpretation of revelation. The author discusses the major themes in the narrative of revelation, engaging critically with four of the century's giants in theology: Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Karl Rahner and Carl Henry. These represent the four major phases in the narrative of revelation and Fackre addresses these alternative views in twentieth-century theology through in-depth inquiry and critical analysis. The Doctrine of Revelation challenges reductionist views and strives for an ecumenical understanding that appropriates the insights from a variety of schools of thought.
Book Synopsis The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible by : Jack Rogers
Download or read book The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible written by Jack Rogers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1999-02-05 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed and comprehensive study of attitudes toward biblical authority and interpretation held from the beginnings of the Christian era to the present day. In clear and readable fashion, the authors examine the writings of early church fathers, the medieval exegetes, and the leaders of the Protestant Reformation to locate the source of, and refute, the position of inerrancy.
Book Synopsis Theology Out of Place by : Lynne Price
Download or read book Theology Out of Place written by Lynne Price and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a theological biography of Professor Walter J. Hollenweger, this book surveys his extensive interests, varied methods and wide-ranging reflection. But Price also incorporates an enquiry into the nature and function of western academic theology relating to to Christian practice today. Hollenweger's research into Pentecostalism, Ecumenism and Intercultural Theology is here brought together in a synthetic overview. Issues such as the unity and diversity of the Bible and its interpretations, the particular and universal dimensions of worldwide Chrsitianity, and relations between Christians and between Christians and 'the others' are all exploited in order to stimulate fresh thinking on the mission of the churches.
Book Synopsis The Early Christian Community by : Douglas A. Hume
Download or read book The Early Christian Community written by Douglas A. Hume and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas A. Hume offers a narrative ethical reading of the passages depicting the early Christian community in Acts (2:41-47 and 4:32-35). He begins with a methodological exploration of how contemporary scholars may examine the impact of biblical narratives upon reader's moral imaginations. Given the presence of friendship language in Acts, the work subsequently launches into an examination of this idiom in Greco-Roman philosophical and literary works by Aristotle, Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, and Iamblichus. The author then proceeds to an exegetical examination of how friendship language is employed by Luke in the narrative summaries of Acts. This ethical reading of the Acts 2:41-47 and 4:32-35 incorporates multiple features of narrative criticism and asks such wide ranging questions as the use of emotion, point of view, and characterization to shape the reading audience's perception of God, the early Christian community, and other characters within the story of Luke-Acts. This study has implications for biblical studies, practical theology, and contemporary understandings of ecclesiology.
Book Synopsis Engaging Biblical Authority by : William P. Brown
Download or read book Engaging Biblical Authority written by William P. Brown and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Bible infallible or inerrant, as some churches claim? Is it a historical document or a piece of literature, as some scholars suggest? This book offers a brief introduction to the question of biblical authority, using essays written by sixteen scholars who use the Bible as the Word of God in their own religious tradition and in their scholarship. Beginning with an introduction to the foundational issues of biblical authority, these scholars each present a different, but sympathetic, view of the Bible from his or her own perspective and experience. Their voices include traditional Reformed, Lutheran, Wesleyan, Catholic, Jewish, and Orthodox views; recent conservative or evangelical positions; and critical African American, Asian American, Hispanic, feminist, and womanist perspectives. --From publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Biblical Authority Or Biblical Tyranny? by : L. William Countryman
Download or read book Biblical Authority Or Biblical Tyranny? written by L. William Countryman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes that scripture be understood as a word that prompts more questions than it answers and that in scripture God has not uttered the last word for us, but the first.
Book Synopsis The Shape of Scriptural Authority by : David Lyon Bartlett
Download or read book The Shape of Scriptural Authority written by David Lyon Bartlett and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ex Auditu - Volume 19 by : Klyne Snodgrass
Download or read book Ex Auditu - Volume 19 written by Klyne Snodgrass and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-06-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Creating Gender in the Garden by : Barbara Deutschmann
Download or read book Creating Gender in the Garden written by Barbara Deutschmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can explain the persistence of gender inequality throughout history? Do narratives such as the Eden story explain that dissymmetry or contribute to it? This book suggests that the Hebrew Bible began and has sustained a rich conversation about sex and gender throughout its life. A literary study of the Garden of Eden story reveals a focus on the human partnership as integral to the divine creation project. Texts from other Hebrew Bible genres build a picture of robust and flexible partnerships within a patriarchal framework. In popular culture, Eve still carries the stench of guilt while Adam, seemingly unscathed by Eden events, remains a positive symbol of manhood. This book helps explain why they have had such different histories. The book also charts the subversive alternate streams of interpretation of women's writings and rabbinic texts. The story of Adam and Eve demonstrates how conceptions of gender in both ancient and modern worlds reflect larger philosophical schemes. Far from existing as timeless verities, female and male relations are constructed according to cultural imperatives of the day. Understanding the different ways that Adam and Eve have been conceived gives us perspective on our own twenty-first century gender architecture.
Book Synopsis A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible by : Robert H. Stein
Download or read book A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible written by Robert H. Stein and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible guide to interpreting the Bible, senior New Testament scholar Robert Stein helps readers identify various biblical genres, understand the meaning of biblical texts, and apply that meaning to contemporary life. This edition has been completely revised throughout to reflect Stein's current thinking and changes to the discipline over the past decade. Students of the Bible will find the book effective in group settings. Praise for the first edition "Stein's work is both a fine introduction to the task of biblical hermeneutics for the novice and an innovative refresher for the veteran teacher or pastor."--Faith & Mission
Book Synopsis Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry by : Robert MacSwain
Download or read book Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry written by Robert MacSwain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical edition of arguably the greatest work of English theology in the 20th century: Austin Farrer's Bampton Lectures published as The Glass of Vision in 1948. Farrer was an interdisciplinary genius who made original contributions to philosophy, theology, and biblical studies, as well as to our understanding of the role of imagination in human thought and Christian doctrine. According to Farrer, the three primary themes of these lectures are 'scripture, metaphysics, and poetry,' individually and in relation to each other. The lectures defend his famous theory of divine revelation through images rather than propositions or events, a provocative account of the place of metaphysical reasoning in theology, and a literary approach to the Biblical text that was decades ahead of its time and is still controversial. The Glass of Vision has generated a rich and interesting interdisciplinary conversation that has lasted for decades, starting with commentators such as Helen Gardner and Frank Kermode. In addition to Farrer's full text, this critical edition also contains an introduction to the significance and context of Farrer's thought, and a selection of thirty-years' worth of commentary by leading British and European theologians and literary scholars: David Brown, Ingolf Dalferth, Hans Haugh, Douglas Hedley, David Jasper, and Gerard Loughlin. Of interest to literary and biblical scholars, theologians, and philosophers, this book holds particular value for those exploring the nature of imagination in contemporary thought and scholarship.
Book Synopsis Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible by : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Download or read book Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible written by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the pastor or serious layperson, the realm of biblical interpretation can be a confusing maze of personalities, communities, methods, and theories. This maze can often result in obscuring the main goal of interpreting Scripture: hearing and knowing God better. The Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible is a groundbreaking reference tool that introduces readers to key names, theories, and concepts in the field of biblical interpretation. It discusses these approaches and evaluates their helpfulness in enabling Christians to hear what God is saying to the church through Scripture. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds, and the dictionary covers a broad range of topics with both clarity and depth.