The Art of Reading Scripture

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Ellen F. Davis, Richard B. Hays
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003 M10 2 - 334 páginas
The difficulty of interpreting the Bible is felt all over today. Is the Bible still authoritative for the faith and practice of the church? If so, in what way? What practices of reading offer the most appropriate approach to understanding Scripture? The church's lack of clarity about these issues has hindered its witness and mission, causing it to speak with an uncertain voice to the challenges of our time.

This important book is for a twenty-first-century church that seems to have lost the art of reading the Bible attentively and imaginatively. The Art of Reading Scripture is written by a group of eminent scholars and teachers seeking to recover the church's rich heritage of biblical interpretation in a dramatically changed cultural environment. Asking how best to read the Bible in a postmodern context, the contributors together affirm up front "Nine Theses" that provide substantial guidance for the church. The essays and sermons that follow both amplify and model the approach to Scripture outlined in the Nine Theses.

Lucidly conceived, carefully written, and shimmering with fresh insights, The Art of Reading Scripture proposes a far-reaching revolution in how the Bible is taught in theological seminaries and calls pastors and teachers in the church to rethink their practices of using the Bible.

Contributors:

Gary A. Anderson
Richard Bauckham
Brian E. Daley
Ellen F. Davis
Richard B. Hays
James C. Howell
Robert W. Jenson
William Stacy Johnson
L. Gregory Jones
Christine McSpadden
R. W. L. Moberly
David C. Steinmetz
Marianne Meye Thompson
 

Contenido

Teaching the Bible Confessionally in the Church
9
Scriptures Authority in the Church
27
Reading Scripture as a Coherent Story
38
Detective Fiction and the Construction of Historical Method
54
Is Patristic Exegesis Still Usable? Some Reflections on Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms
69
Christ Was like St Francis
89
Reading the Scriptures Faithfully in a Postmodern Age
109
Preaching Scripture Faithfully in a PostChristendom Church
125
Reading Scripture in Light of the Resurrection
216
1418
239
Jesus Washes the Feet of His Disciples
258
Vulnerability the Condition of Covenant
277
Selfinflicted Violence
294
Prisoner of Hope
300
Who Is the God That Will Deliver You?
306
Netted
311

Embodying Scripture in the Community of Faith
143
Seeking an Inner Biblical Hermeneutic
163
Genesis 22 and the Quest for Good Biblical Interpretation
181
Joseph and the Passion of Our Lord
198
Whether We Live or Die We Are the Lords
317
Selected Bibliography
326
Scripture Index
329
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Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke University Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina.

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