The Scope And Authority Of The Bible

Author : James Barr
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005292920

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James Barr was one of the most formidable biblical scholars of the late twentieth century. His prolific writings on text and philosophy, Bible and interpretation, as well as many other subjects, add to his formidable stature in scholarship, while his book Fundamentalism (1977) remains perhaps the most trenchant critical analysis and rebuttal of that approach to the Bible ever produced vy a scholar. The Scope and Authority of the Bible brings together seven essays that are representative of the author's style, approach to and outlook on contemporary biblical topics. Characterised throughout by freshness and openness of thought, as well as the iconoclasm, for which the author is famous, this collection serves as an indeal introduction to one of the most important issues facing the churches today, as well as to the author's thought as a whole. James Barr was Regious Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford and Professor of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University.

Author : Richard R. Topping
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317063759

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Revelation, Scripture and Church by Richard R. Topping Pdf

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 less than a ’realist’ interpretative proposal. Talk of God is eclipsed by the terminal consideration of human realities. Topping argues for the centrality of doctrinal description in a lively theological understanding of Scripture interpretation for the life of the church.

Author : Sarah Heaner Lancaster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567206305

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Women and the Authority of Scripture by Sarah Heaner Lancaster Pdf

The theological impact of accepting the absolute authority of biblical scripture is enormous-especially for women who attend and serve churches. But until now, few books have been willing to address this issue head on. Sarah Lancaster looks at the way women in the church have dealt with the question of scriptural authority and how they can address it in the future. Some women, she says, accept the authority of the Bible without question and stay in church without change of attitude or action. Others deny that the Bible has any authority, completely leaving Christianity in the belief that the Bible and Christian tradition are irredeemably patriarchal. Still others recognize that while scripture is largely patriarchal, it is authoritative for their life of faith. The Bible possesses a narrative coherence, its story resonating in our own lives. For women, the Bible can continue to "ring true" to their experience, letting them acknowledge scripture's authority in spite of its problems. The Bible is not about patriarchy; it is about how God is present to us and interacts with us in order to bring us to fullness of life. Lancaster says that women can criticize those things in scripture that help maintain a patriarchal world without invalidating scripture's authority. Scripture, she argues, informs, forms, and transforms. With its combination of narrative and feminist theology, Women and the Authority of Scripture brings a powerful new perspective to the doctrine of biblical authority in the contemporary world. Sarah Heaner Lancaster is Associate Professor of Theology, Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio. She is an ordained elder in the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. She lives in Westerville, Ohio.

Author : James Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199692880

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Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr by James Barr Pdf

The first of three volumes of James Barr's collected essays. Begins with a biographical essay and contains major articles on theology in relation to the Bible, programmatic studies of the past and future of biblical study, and reflections on specific topics in the study of the Old Testament.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004465664

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James Barr Assessed by Anonim Pdf

James Barr published significant work on a wide variety of topics within Old Testament studies and beyond. This volume provides an assessment of Barr’s contribution to biblical studies sixty years after publication of his memorable The Semantics of Biblical Language.

Author : Athena E. Gorospe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004158559

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Narrative and Identity by Athena E. Gorospe Pdf

Using key features of Ricoeur's narrative theory, this creative Asian re-reading of Moses' reverse migration in Exodus 4: 18-26 charts the way for a multi-dimensional OT hermeneutic which explores the theme of identity formation in light of the liminal experience of migration.

Author : David L. Baker
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830884230

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Two Testaments, One Bible by David L. Baker Pdf

Do we need the Old Testament today? Is this collection of ancient writings still relevant in our postmodern and increasingly post-literary world? Isn't the New Testament a sufficient basis for the Christian faith? What does the Old Testament God of power and glory have to do with the New Testament God of love whom Jesus calls 'Father'? Are these two very different Testaments really one Bible? In this thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of Two Testaments, One Bible, David L. Baker investigates the theological basis for the continued acceptance of the Old Testament as Christian Scripture, through a study of its relationship to the New Testament. He introduces the main issues, surveys the history of interpretation, and critically examines four major approaches. He then considers four key themes, which provide a framework for Christian interpretation of two Testaments in the context of one Bible: 'typology,' 'promise and fulfilment,' 'continuity and discontinuity,' and 'covenant.' He completes his study with a summary of the main conclusions and reflection on their implications for the use of the Bible today.

Author : Timo Eskola
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004258037

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Beyond Biblical Theology by Timo Eskola Pdf

Reading Heikki Räisänen’s hermeneutics in context, Timo Eskola explores the development of Western New Testament interpretation. Reclaiming a Wredean approach to the Scriptures, Räisänen focuses on tradition and interpretation. He builds on Weberian sociology, adopted through Peter Berger’s theories, and substitutes sacralized culturalism for biblical theology. After examining fourteenth century Quran-criticism and its impact on Reimarus, Eskola discusses the genesis of the revised history-of-religion theory that Räisänen developed when investigating the Quran’s relationship to the Bible. Sociology then becomes a link between standard historicism and poststructuralism as Räisänen reinterprets Berger’s sociology of knowledge. Räisänen’s sacralized culturalism finally becomes the theory from which his magnum opus The Rise of Christian Beliefs has been written.

Author : Mark J. Zia
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809146994

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What Are They Saying about Biblical Inspiration? by Mark J. Zia Pdf

Six major scholars selected for their contributions in the study of biblical inspiration and who provide a veritable cross-section of the diversity of viewpoints on this topic as found in Anglo-American scholarship are surveyed. Abraham Heschel James Burtchaell Bruce Vawter William Abraham Kern Trembath Paul Achtemeier This presentation offers a constructive criticism of these insights from a Roman Catholic perspective, synthesizes their significant contributions, and shows the continuing dialogue among North American scholars in the field of biblical inspiration. A unique contribution of this book is that it affirms the traditional understanding of biblical inspiration as set forth by the Catholic Church, most notably in Dei Verbum of the Second Vatican Council, while at the same time positing the continuity between past biblical inspiration and present spiritual illumination. Book jacket.

Author : John Goldingay
Publisher : Clements Publishing Group
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1894667417

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Models for Scripture by John Goldingay Pdf

Looks at the task of interpreting Scripture as "witnessing tradition," "authoritative canon," "inspired word," and "experienced revelation".

Author : P. E. Satterthwaite,David F. Wright
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0802840787

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A Pathway Into the Holy Scripture by P. E. Satterthwaite,David F. Wright Pdf

Revised versions of papers presented at the 1994 Tyndale Fellowship jubilee conference held in Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick.

Author : Eryl W. Davies
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567305497

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The Immoral Bible by Eryl W. Davies Pdf

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Author : Klyne Snodgrass
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498232555

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Ex Auditu - Volume 19 by Klyne Snodgrass Pdf

Author : Harriet A. Harris
Publisher : Oxford Theological Monographs
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198269609

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Fundamentalism and Evangelicals by Harriet A. Harris Pdf

`Fundamentalism' is a label used often pejoratively of religious conservatism. Evangelicals are growing in number and power around the world and are frequently regarded as fundamentalist. This volume examines fundamentalism as a mentality which has greatly affected evangelicalism, but which some evangelicals now wish to leave behind.

Author : Ernest Wilson Nicholson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0199257833

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The Pentateuch in the Twentieth Century by Ernest Wilson Nicholson Pdf

But the Documentary Hypothesis should remain our primary point of reference, and it alone provides the most dependable perspective from which to approach this most difficult of areas in the study of the Old Testament.