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Author: Peter-Ben Smit
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-07-14
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9004301011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Canonical Criticism to Ecumenical Exegesis? considers five distinct approaches to canonical criticism (of Brevard S. Childs, James A. Sanders, Peter Stuhlmacher, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, and the Amsterdam School of exegesis) and combines this with ideas from ecumenical hermeneutics and intercultural theology.
Author: William John Lyons
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2002-07-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0567403432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Previous attempts to critique the canonical approach of Brevard Childs have remained largely theoretical in nature. One of the weakness of canonical criticism, then, is its failure to have generated new readings of extended biblical passages. Reviewing the hermeneutics and the praxis of Childs' approach, Lyons then turns to the Sodom narrative (Gen 18-19) as a test of a practical exegesis according to Childs' principles, and then to reflect critically upon the reading experience generated. Surprisingly, the canonical reading produced is a wholly new one, centred around the complex, irreducible-even contradictory-request of Abraham for Yahweh to do justice (18:23-25).
Author: James A. Sanders
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2018-10-29
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 3161557565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this important collection of essays James A. Sanders offers his most significant work on the text and canon of the Hebrew Bible, along with his seminal studies of the Qumran Scrolls. He has been at the forefront of the study of canon formation, history of interpretation, and textual criticism, with specialty in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the use of the Old Testament in the New. These studies document the variety of textual traditions, as well as the diversity and unsettled, incipient state of the collection of sacred literature that was regarded as authoritative or canonical in the late Second Temple period. They laid the foundation on which today's scholarly discussion is focused.
Author: James A. Sanders
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2000-06-02
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1579104347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the history of canonical criticism and assesses current trends in biblical analysis, and explores the relationship between contemporary interpretations of holy texts and their ancient meanings.
Author: James A. Sanders
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9783161576669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →James A. Sanders has been at the forefront of the study of canon formation, history of interpretation, and textual criticism, specializing in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the use of the Old Testament in the New. Like no one else, he is able to bring together exegetical detail with hermeneutical and theological insight. He moves deftly from exegetical, critical detail to hermeneutical options and overarching theological implications. In this important collection of essays we have the mature fruit of decades of research, including careful engagement with ancient texts and fair-minded ecumenical discourse with the greatest minds in the field. These studies laid the foundation on which today's scholarly discussion is focused.
Author: Thomas J. Parker
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2024-02-29
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0227179846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the New Testament writers, the Old Testament scriptures and the teachings of Jesus were key sources of authority and influence. When these influences are considered alongside each other, each can illuminate the other, deepening the New Testament writers' presentation of Jesus and our understanding of their interpretations. In Jesus and Scripture, Tom Parker examines the way in which Hebrews, James, and 1 and 2 Peter deal with these two different sources of authority, how they relate to each other, and what shifts have occurred historically and theologically within the writing of these texts. Treating the four epistles methodologically, Parker examines the particular ways in which each writer draws on the Hebrew scriptures. Ultimately, he argues convincingly that the nascent Jesus tradition, particularly via oral routes, influenced the way the Old Testament was processed by these various New Testament writers.
Author: Noble
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-30
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9004497706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Canonical Approach makes a detailed assessment of Brevard Childs' 'canonical approach' to biblical interpretation. A careful analysis of Childs' work identifies a number of historical, hermeneutical, and theological issues that are central both to Childs' programme and to the wider methodological debate. These include the adequacy of the historical-critical tools, their relationship to the more recent, 'synchronic' approaches, the role of the interpreter's own presuppositions, the viability of working from a specific faith-commitment, and ways in which the ancient texts can 'speak' to the modern Church. After an incisive discussion of these questions it is suggested how Childs' programme can be set on a sounder methodological basis. This book is particularly notable for its clarification of Childs' approach, and for its original solutions to a number of central methodological problems.
Author: Marius Nel
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2018-12-27
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 153266088X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The face of African Christianity is becoming Pentecostal. African Pentecostalism is a diverse movement, but its collective interest in baptism in the Spirit and the result of Pentecost in daily living binds it together. Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation that the Spirit who inspired the authors will again inspire them to hear it as God's word. They emphasize the experiential, at times at the cost of proper doctrine and practice. This book sketches an African hermeneutic that provides guidance to a diverse movement with many faces, and serves as corrective for doctrine and practice in the face of some excesses and abuses (especially in some parts of the neo-Pentecostal movement). African Pentecostalism's contribution to the hermeneutical debate is described before three points are discussed that define it: the centrality of the Holy Spirit in reading the Bible, the eschatological lens that Pentecostals use when they read the Bible, and the faith community as normative for the interpretation of the Bible.
Author: Peter-Ben Smit
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-10-29
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 900441214X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Old Catholic theology is the theology that is characteristic of the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht. This contribution outlines the main characteristics of and influences on Old Catholic theology, and outlines the extant ecumenical relationships of the Old Catholic Churches.
Author: Mark S. Gignilliat
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2019-06-18
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1493418009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Veteran Old Testament teacher Mark Gignilliat explores the theological and hermeneutical instincts that are necessary for reading, understanding, and communicating Scripture faithfully. He takes seriously the gains of historical criticism while insisting that the Bible must be interpreted as Christian Scripture, offering students a "third way" that assigns proper proportion to both historical and theological concerns. Reading and engaging Scripture requires not only historical tools, Gignilliat says, but also recognition of the living God's promised presence through the Bible.
