Andrew Village

The Bible and Lay People

An Empirical Approach to Ordinary Hermeneutics

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Produktbeschreibung

There are many books about how people ought to interpret the Bible. This book is about how people in churches actually interpret the Bible, and why they interpret it in the way that they do. Based on a study of Anglicans in the Church of England, it explores the interaction of belief, personality, experience and context and sheds new light on the

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781032180007
• ISBN-10: 1032180005
• Artikelnr.: 62572847

Autorenporträt

Revd Dr Andrew Village is Senior Lecturer at York St John University, York, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Biblical Studies in Academy and Church
Chapter 3 The Bible and Ordinary Readers
Chapter 4 Biblical Literalism and Ordinary Readers
Chapter 5 Biblical Interpretative Horizons
Chapter 6 Personality and Scripture
Chapter 7 Interpretative Communities and Scripture
Chapter 8 The Holy Spirit and Biblical Interpretation
Chapter 9 Towards an Empirical Theology of Scripture