Art of Reading Scripture 1st Edition by Ellen Davis, Richard Hays ISBN 0802812694 9780802812698

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ISBN 10: 0802812694

ISBN 13: 978-0802812698

Author: Ellen F. Davis, Richard B. Hays

Art of Reading Scripture 1st Edition: The difficulty of interpreting the Bible is felt all over today. Is the Bible still authoritative for the faith and practice of the church? If so, in what way? What practices of reading offer the most appropriate approach to understanding Scripture? The church’s lack of clarity about these issues has hindered its witness and mission, causing it to speak with an uncertain voice to the challenges of our time. This important book is for a twenty-first-century church that seems to have lost the art of reading the Bible attentively and imaginatively. The Art of Reading Scripture is written by a group of eminent scholars and teachers seeking to recover the church’s rich heritage of biblical interpretation in a dramatically changed cultural environment. Asking how best to read the Bible in a postmodern context, the contributors together affirm up front “Nine Theses” that provide substantial guidance for the church. The essays and sermons that follow both amplify and model the approach to Scripture outlined in the Nine Theses. Lucidly conceived, carefully written, and shimmering with fresh insights, The Art of Reading Scripture proposes a far-reaching revolution in how the Bible is taught in theological seminaries and calls pastors and teachers in the church to rethink their practices of using the Bible.

 

Art of Reading Scripture 1st Edition Table of contents:

How do we read and teach the scriptures?

• Teaching the Bible confessionally in the church
• Scripture’s authority in the church
• Reading scripture as a coherent story
• Uncovering a second narrative: detective fiction and the construction of historical method

A living tradition

• Is patristic exegesis still usable? Some reflections on early Christian interpretation of the Psalms
• Christ was like St. Francis
• Reading the scriptures faithfully in a postmodern age
• Preaching scripture faithfully in a post-Christendom church
• Embodying scripture in the community of faith

Reading difficult texts

• Critical traditioning: seeking an inner biblical hermeneutic
• Living dangerously: Genesis 22 and the quest for good biblical interpretation
• Joseph and the passion of our Lord
• Reading scripture in light of the resurrection
• How can we know the truth? A study of John 7:14-18
• “His own received him not”: Jesus washes the feet of his disciples

Selected sermons

• Vulnerability, the condition of covenant
• Self-inflicted violence
• Prisoner of hope
• Who is the God that will deliver you?
• Netted
• Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s

 

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