The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture

ISBN-13: 9781481306089 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 724 str.

Iain Provan

Opis

Such lavish attention to, and importance placed upon, a seriously literal interpretation of Scripture is appropriate to the Christian confession of the word as Word--the one God's Word for the one world.--John Goldingay, David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament, Fuller Theological Seminary

Spis treści

• 1. Introduction: O Little Town of... Wittenberg
• Part I. Before There Were Protestants: Long-Standing Questions
• 2. Scripture and Canon in the Early Church: On Chickens and Their Eggs
• 3. The Formation of the Christian Canon: The Pressure of the Twenty-Two
• 4. On the Meaning of Words: The Literal, the Spiritual, and the Plain Confusing
• 5. The Reading of Scripture in the New Testament: All That the Prophets Have Spoken
• 6. Literal Reading, Typology, and Allegory in Paul: A Rose by Any Other Name
• 7. Justin, Irenaeus, and Tertullian: False Economies and Hidden Treasure
• 8. Origen, Theodore, and Augustine: The Fertility of Scripture
• 9. How Shall We Then Read?: The Church Fathers, the Reformers, and Ourselves
• 10. The Septuagint as Christian Scripture: It's All Greek to Me
• 11. The Vulgate, the Renaissance, and the Reformation: When in Rome...
• Part II. Now There Are Protestants: Scripture in a Changing World
• 12. The Perspicuity of Scripture Alone: A Lamp unto My Feet
• 13. The Authority of Scripture: Thy Word Is Truth
• 14. The Bible, the Heavens, and the Earth: The Beginnings of an Eclipse
• 15. The Emergence of Secular History: The Way We (Really) Were
• 16. On Engaging with a Changing World: Fight, Flight, and the Fifth Way
• Part III. Still Protesting: Scripture in the (Post)Modern World
• 17. Source and Form Criticism: Behind the Text
• 18. Redaction and Rhetorical Criticism: The Persuasive Text
• 19. Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Texts and Subtexts
• 20. Narrative Criticism: Getting the Story Straight
• 21. Social-Scientific and Feminist Criticism Texts as Social Constructs
• 22. The Canonical Reading of Scripture: The End of Criticism
• 23. Postscript
• Appendix: Modern Developments in Our Understanding of the Biblical Text