Title: Hermeneutics and the authority of scripture /
Authors: Cadwallader, Alan H.; Australian Theological Forum.
Publisher: ATF Theology,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Bible Evidences, authority, etc.; Bible Hermeneutics.
Abstract: The question of hermeneutics now dominates all disciplines of human knowledge and its construction. It has moved from a concentration on how to apply the results of research knowledge to considerations of the frameworks by which we conduct research as a meaningful exercise. The study of the Bible is not exempt from these developments. The essays in this collection amply testify to the breadth of frameworks that are now being applied to the Bible and the development of ethical awareness in the construction of knowledge. The reader will find engagements with the Bible informed by developments in.
Contents: Women, authority, and the Bible : ecological feminist considerations / Anne Elvey -- Interpreting scripture/interpreting law / Frank S Ravitch -- Hermeneutics and the authority of theology : fusing the horizons of hermeneutics and Polanyian personal knowledge / Chris Mulherin -- The authority of the Bible, the flood story, and problematic images of God / Terence E Fretheim -- The characterisation of God in Lamentations / Elizabeth Boase -- The reappropriation of the 'Old' Testament as key to hermeneutical and ecclesial renewal / Ockert S Meyer -- Approaching the New Testament as source of faith and witness to faith / William Loader -- Dog-throttling : nineteenth century dogmatic/cultural constructions of the Syrophoenician woman / Alan H Cadwallader -- Imposing the silence of women : a suggestion about the date of the interpolation in 1 Corinthians / Shelly Li -- Cohesion and prominence in the expository discourse of Colossians / Philip McKeown.