Revelation, Scripture and Church: Theological Hermeneutic Thought of James Barr, Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei

ISBN-13: 9781138311824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 252 str.

Richard R. Topping

Opis

How does God's involvement with the generation of Holy Scripture and its use in the life of the Christian church figure into the human work of Scripture interpretation? This is the central question that this book seeks to address. In critical conversation with the influential hermeneutic programs of James Barr, Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei, Topping demonstrates how God's agency has been marginalized in the task of Scripture interpretation. Divine involvement with the Bible is bracketed out (Barr), rendered in generic terms (Ricoeur) or left implicit (Frei) in these depictions of the hermeneutic field. The result is that each of these hermeneutic programs is ess than a 'realist' interpretative proposal.

Spis treści

Introduction  1 Revelation and Biblical Interpretation: Divine Disclosure and the Constitution of Faith  2 The Bible as Holy Scripture: Construal and Authority  3 The Church and the Bible Critically Read  Conclusion

O autorze

Richard R. Wiliams