Rendering the Word in Theological Hermeneutics: Mapping Divine and Human Agency

ISBN-13: 9781032243450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 214 str.

Mark Alan Bowald

Opis

This book proposes an original typology for grasping the differences between diverse types of biblical interpretation, fashioned in a triangle around a major theological and philosophical lacuna: the relation between divine and human action. Despite their purported concern for reading God's word, most modern and postmodern approaches to biblical in

Recenzje

’This is a brave book that has an unashamed agenda and should be engaged as such... There can be no doubt, however, that this is a valuable volume that will spark further debate in the field of theological hermeneutics.’ Theological Book Review ’...yields new insights into theologians whose work is well known’ Expository Times

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Eclipsing and Usurping of Divine Agency in Enlightenment Epistemology and their Influence on Scriptural Hermeneutics; Chapter 2 A Triangle Typology: Mapping Divine and Human Agency in Contemporary Theological Hermeneutics; Chapter 3 Type One: Human Agency in the “Text”; Chapter 4 Type Two: Human Agency in the “Reading”; Chapter 5 Type Three: Prioritizing Divine Agency: God’s Agency In, With, and Under Scripture and its Reading; Chapter 6 Implications of the Triangle Typology: A Modest Proposal for A Divine-Rhetorical Hermeneutics;

O autorze

Mark Alan Bowald is Assistant Professor of Religion and Theology at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada.