Author : John Barton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 1998-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521485937
This guide to the state of biblical studies features 20 chapters written by scholars from North America and Britain, and represents both traditional and contemporary points of view.
Author : David R. Law
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567400123
An introduction to one of the core methods of approaching biblical texts.
Author : Christopher M. Hays
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441245758
Many introductions to biblical studies describe critical approaches, but they do not discuss the theological implications. This timely resource discusses the relationship between historical criticism and Christian theology to encourage evangelical engagement with historical-critical scholarship. Charting a middle course between wholesale rejection and unreflective embrace, the book introduces evangelicals to a way of understanding and using historical-critical scholarship that doesn't compromise Christian orthodoxy. The book covers eight of the most hotly contested areas of debate in biblical studies, helping readers work out how to square historical criticism with their beliefs.
Author : Gerhard Maier
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2001-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579108474
The historical-critical method of biblical interpretation has dominated theological thinking for over two centuries. It has been the subject of much controversy, including the turmoil in American Lutheranism. But now the historical-critical method has Òcome to a dead end.Ó So says Dr. Gerhard Maier, author of the original version of this work. Maier points out that the emphasis in the historical-critical method has consistently been on the critical rather than the historical. He goes on to delineate the Òhistorical-biblicalÓ method he feels will be needed in the future. Such a method takes history seriously but allows for God's supernatural intervention in human affairs. Here Edwin Leverenz and Rudolph Norden present the English translation of Maier's manuscript, while Eugene Klug's preface places the study into the setting of today's theological debate. The End of the Historical Critical-Method is ÒmustÓ reading for theologians. Yet it also serves as a help to all who have been searching for guidance in combating rationalism in the approach to theology.
Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830869999
This book presents proponents of five approaches to biblical hermeneutics and allows them to respond to each other. The five approaches are the historical-critical/grammatical (Craig Blomberg), redemptive-historical (Richard Gaffin), literary/postmodern (Scott Spencer), canonical (Robert Wall) and philosophical/theological (Merold Westphal) views.
Author : Scott Hahn
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824599034
Resisting the typical, dry methods of contemporary scholarship, this powerful examination revisits the biblical days of life-and-death conflict, struggles for power between popes and kings, and secret alliances of intellectuals united by a desire to pit worldly goals against the spiritual priorities of the church. This account looks beyond the pretense of neutrality and objectivity often found in secular study, and brings to light the appropriation of scripture by politically motivated interpreters. Questioning the techniques taken for granted at divinity schools worldwide, their origins are traced to the writings of Machiavelli and Marsilio of Padua, the political projects of Henry VIII, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, and the quest for an empire of science on the part of Descartes and Spinoza. Intellectual and inspiring, an argument is made for bringing Christianity back to biblical literacy.
Author : Eta Linnemann
Publisher : Kregel Academic & Professional
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825430954
A former liberal scholar and student of Rudolph Bultmann and Ernst Fuchs tells how modern biblical scholarship has drifted far from the truth, and why its assumptions are nonetheless so influential and thereby dangerous.
Author : Jon Douglas Levenson
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664254070
Writing from a Jewish perspective, Jon Levenson reviews many often neglected theoretical questions. He focuses on the relationship between two interpretive communities--the community of scholars who are committed to the historical-critical method of biblical interpretation and the community responsible for the canonization and preservation of the Bible.
Author : Thomas C. Oden
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830837051
Thomas C. Oden surveys the decisive role of African Christians and theologians in shaping the doctrines and practices of the church of the first five centuries, and makes an impassioned plea for the rediscovery of that heritage. Christians throughout the world will benefit from this reclaiming of an important heritage.
Author : Stephen B. Chapman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1316577961
This Companion offers a concise and engaging introduction to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Providing an up-to-date 'snapshot' of scholarship, it includes essays, specially commissioned for this volume, by twenty-three leading scholars. The volume examines a range of topics, including the historical and religious contexts for the contents of the biblical canon, and critical approaches and methods, as well as newer topics such as the Hebrew Bible in Islam, Western art and literature, and contemporary politics. This Companion is an excellent resource for students at university and graduate level, as well as for laypeople and scholars in other fields who would like to gain an understanding of the current state of the academic discussion. The book does not presume prior knowledge, nor does it engage in highly technical discussions, but it does go into greater detail than a typical introductory textbook.
