Postmodern Use Of The Bible

Author : George Aichele,Fred W. Burnett,Robert M. Fowler,David Job ling,Tina Pippin,Wilhelm Wuellner,Bible and Culture Collective
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300068182

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The Postmodern Bible by George Aichele,Fred W. Burnett,Robert M. Fowler,David Job ling,Tina Pippin,Wilhelm Wuellner,Bible and Culture Collective Pdf

The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led to stimulating--but often bewildering--new readings of the Bible. This book, argued from a perspective shaped by postmodernism, is at once an accessible guide to and an engagement with various methods, theories, and critical practices transforming biblical scholarship today. Written by a collective of cutting-edge scholars--with each page the work of multiple hands--The Postmodern Bible deliberately breaks with the individualist model of authorship that has traditionally dominated scholarship in the humanities and is itself an illustration of the postmodern transformation of biblical studies for which it argues. The book introduces, illustrates, and critiques seven prominent strategies of reading. Several of these interpretive strategies--rhetorical criticism, structuralism and narratology, reader-response criticism, and feminist criticism--have been instrumental in the transformation of biblical studies up to now. Many--feminist and womanist criticism, ideological criticism, poststructuralism, and psychoanalytic criticism--hold promise for the continued transformation of these studies in the future. Focusing on readings from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, this volume illuminates the current multidisciplinary debates emerging from postmodernism by exposing the still highly contested epistemological, political, and ethical positions in the field of biblical studies.

Author : Terence Fretheim,Karlfried Froehlich
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579108465

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The Bible as Word of God by Terence Fretheim,Karlfried Froehlich Pdf

How is the Bible authoritative in this postmodern age? In this exchange from the 1995 Hein/Fry Lectures Series, Fretheim and Froehlich mount important, though divergent, analyses of the contemporary situation regarding Scripture and suggest varying strategies to meet it. What does it mean to say that Scripture has authority for Christian faith and life in light of contemporary forms of biblical criticism? How do we understand a biblical text to be the Word of God when the meaning of the text can vary, depending on the perspective of the reader/hearer? Given the profound hermeneutical challenges of our time, how does Scripture serve as a guide in worship, doctrine, preaching, and ethical decision-making for the people of God? -From the Foreword

Author : Edgar McKnight
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597524513

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Postmodern Use of the Bible by Edgar McKnight Pdf

Harry Emerson Fosdick's classic volume entitled 'The Modern Use of the Bible' enabled readers in the first part of this century to make the pilgrimage into the 'modern' era and to understand the Bible in an idiom informed by critical and historical assumptions and approaches. The exchange of the historical context for the dogmatic transformed biblical study into an exciting discipline both spiritually and intellectually. The critical distancing of the text in the historical approach, however, has gradually trnasformed biblical writings into museum pieces without contemporary relevance. For contemporary readers, a satisfying approach cannot be uncritical, but it must move beyond the critical. 'Postmodern Use of the Bible' encourages a continual pilgrimage. In this book, readers are provided resources to enable them to make sense for themselves, in the light of challenges to major critical assumptions and strategies of 'The Modern Use of the Bible.' The same goal is in mind--to allow the Bible to speak in a contemporary idiom. --from the Introduction Contents Introduction 1. How Have We Made Sense of the Bible? 2. Toward the Postmodern 3. Literary Perspectives and Resources for Postmodern Use: Structures, Codes, and the Readers 4. The Role of the Reader: Imaging the Sacred 5. The Role of the Reader: Actualizing of Biblical Discourse Conclusion

Author : J. Richard Middleton,Brian J. Walsh
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830818561

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Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be by J. Richard Middleton,Brian J. Walsh Pdf

J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh offer an introduction, evaluation and response to postmodern culture that comes straight from the heart of the gospel.

Author : Andrew P. Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004424050

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Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies by Andrew P. Wilson Pdf

In Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies, Andrew P. Wilson tracks the various strands of postmodernism threaded through the discipline, drawing on a range of evocative biblical readings as well as key examples from the art world.

Author : David J. Hesselgrave
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878089796

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Scripture and Strategy by David J. Hesselgrave Pdf

David Hesselgrave uses the work of ten influential men to describe what is going on in missions. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of the use of the Bible in the church and in mission, from the study of the Bible to teaching biblical principles to church leaders on the mission field. As the first title in the new Evangelical Missiological Society series, this textbook is designed for use in addressing: Contemporary Issues in Missions, Mission Strategy, Theology of Mission, Survey of Mission, Mission Principles and Practices, Strategy for World Evangelization, Church Planting, Church Growth, and Contextualization.

Author : David Jobling,Tina Pippin,Ronald Schleifer
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0631219625

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The Postmodern Bible Reader by David Jobling,Tina Pippin,Ronald Schleifer Pdf

A range of powerful contemporary engagements with the Bible by literary critics, philosophers, writers and activists is brought together for the first time in this Reader.

Author : AKM Adam
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827229704

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Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible - A Reader by AKM Adam Pdf

A.K.M. Adam has brought together the most internationally esteemed voices in postmodern biblical interpretation in this extensive collection of postmodernist essays on important texts in both the Old and the New Testaments. Integrating method and actual exegesis, each author interprets a biblical text from a postmodern perspective, offering new insights into the biblical texts. The result is a discerning and accessible reader that fully illustrates the variety of postmodern biblical interpretations.

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800627369

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Texts Under Negotiation by Walter Brueggemann Pdf

Old assumptions - rational, objectivist, absolutist - have for the most part given way to new outlooks, which can be grouped under the term postmodern. What does this new situation imply for the church and for Christian proclamation? Can one find in this new situation opportunity as well as dilemma? How can central biblical themes - self, world, and community - be interpreted and imagined creatively and concretely in this new context? Our task, Brueggemann contends, is not to construct a full alternative world, but rather to fund - to provide the pieces, materials, and resources out of which a new world can be imagined. The place of liturgy and proclamation is "a place where people come to receive new materials, or old materials freshly voiced, which will fund, feed, nurture, nourish, legitimate, and authorize a counterimagination of the world". Six exegetical examples of such a new approach to the biblical text are included.

Author : John Joseph Collins
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802828922

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The Bible After Babel by John Joseph Collins Pdf

In The Bible after Babel John J. Collins considers the effect of the postmodern situation on biblical, primarily Old Testament, criticism over the last three decades. Collins examines the quest of historical criticism to objectively establish a text's basic meaning. Accepting that the Bible may no longer provide secure "foundations" for faith, Collins still highlights its ethical challenge to be concerned for "the other"--A challenge central both to Old Testament ethics and to the teaching of Jesus. --from publisher description.

Author : David Kondru
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664215238

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A Biblical Perspective on Life’s Purpose in the Age of Postmodernism by David Kondru Pdf

The purpose of the book is to revitalize the essentials of Christian living in a way God wants us to be especially when the bible based moral values and the absolute truths to establish the meaning of life were degraded and whitewashed in this postmodern world. At this juncture, it is a definite need to search for hidden and forgotten Judeo-Christian values that define the meaning of human life and its worth in the eyes of the Living God. Its sole purpose is to know Who God is and His standard of living when this world is influenced and reshaped by cultural darkness, revolutions and counter revolutions that are antithetical to the bible.

Author : Andrew Keith Malcolm Adam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0827229712

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Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation by Andrew Keith Malcolm Adam Pdf

Postmodern interpretation of the Bible represents one of the cutting edges in biblical studies, yet scholars have too often found these methods frustratingly dense and obtuse. This volume offers an accessible introduction to the methods of postmodern biblical interpretation. Each essay introduces a major concept or a key interpreter of postmodernism within the context of its connection to biblical interpretation, allowing scholars and students to begin understanding this exciting and provocative set of developments in biblical study.

Author : Brian D. Ingraffia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521568404

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Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology by Brian D. Ingraffia Pdf

This book explores the relationship between postmodernism and Christianity. Whereas deconstructionists claim all religious discourses can be radically undermined, Ingraffia argues that the version of Christianity constructed by Nietzsche, Heidegger and especially Derrida ignores Christianity's unique ontological status. This truth, Ingraffia claims, is an unacknowledged influence on leading postmodernist thinkers, thereby demonstrating the priority of the Judaeo-Christian tradition over secular attempts to displace it.

Author : Richard Bauckham
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801027713

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Bible and Mission by Richard Bauckham Pdf

This engaging study provides a new way of looking at Scripture--one that takes seriously the biblical idea of mission. Richard Bauckham shows how God identifies himself with particular individuals or people in human history in order to be known by all. He is the God of Abraham, Israel, and David and, finally, the one who acts through Jesus Christ. Bauckham applies these insights to the contemporary scene, encouraging those involved in mission to be sensitive to postmodern concerns about globalization while at the same time emphasizing the uniqueness of Christian faith. In doing so, he demonstrates the diversity of Christian faith around the world. This book will be rewarding reading for pastors, lay readers, and students of Scripture, mission, and postmodernism.

Author : David Penchansky
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 086554462X

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The Politics of Biblical Theology by David Penchansky Pdf