Christopher Bryan

Listening to the Bible

The Art of Faithful Biblical Interpretation

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Produktbeschreibung

Christopher Bryan reflects on the often-difficult relationship between academic study of the Bible and the Church, and suggests a way forward in which scientific questions are not to be ignored, but in asking them we are not to ignore the texts' setting-in-life, which is and has always been the believing community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780199336593
• ISBN-10: 0199336598
• Artikelnr.: 39111836

Autorenporträt

Christopher Bryan is C.K. Benedict Professor of New Testament (Emeritus) at University of the South and editor of Sewanee Theological Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
I. The Division
II How Did We Get Here?
III. Why Jowett's Project was Impossible
IV. The Hermeneutic of Suspicion
V. So What Do We Do?
VI. The First Task: Listening to the Individual Voices
VII. A Digression: "Great Literature?"
VI. The Second Task: Relating the Parts to the Whole
1. The Rule of Faith and the Question of History.
2. The Different Voices and Their Different Accounts of the History
VII. The Third Task: So What Now?
1. Why We Must Ask the Question
2. The Scriptures as Interpretative Narrative
3. The Exercise of Christian Imagination
VIII. The Drama of the Word
Epilogue
Appendix (by David Landon): Speaking the Word: A Guide to Liturgical Reading
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index