Reading Scripture with the Saints

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9380-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

Reihe: Lutterworth Press

An informative exploration of the history of biblical exegesis, from the earliest commentators of the Patristic era to the early modern age.

Reading Scripture with the Saints' is a small museum. On its pages hang portraits of Christianity's "masters of the sacred page": Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo, Benedict of Nursia, Maximus Confessor, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther and Charles Wesley. Other, surprising figures also appear, such as Shakespeare, Washington and Lincoln. How did these figures from history interpret Scripture? What might their diverse approaches teach today's readers of the Old and New Testaments? What is missing in contemporary biblical interpretation that an awareness of the history of exegesis might complete? Join C. Clifton Black as he traverses the Bible, Church History, systematic theology, Elizabethan drama and American politics. Reading Scripture with the Saints retrieves pre-modern insights for a post-modern world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Black, C. Clifton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Welcome

PATRISTIC STIRRINGS
Chapter 2. Trinity and Exegesis
Chapter 3. Serving the Food of Full-Grown Adults
Chapter 4. Listen

MIDDLE AGES
Chapter 5. Transfigured Exegesis
Chapter 6. Doubtless Thomas
Chapter 7. Luther Times Three

SOME EARLY MODERNS
Chapter 8. "Not of an Age, But for All Time"
Chapter 9. Searcher of the Oracles Divine
Chapter 10. American Scriptures

CONCLUSION
Chapter 11. Until Later
Appendices
1. Washington's Farewell
2. Lincoln's Second Inaugural

Bibliography
Index of Scripture and Other Primary Sources
Index of Subjects