Reading Scripture with the saints
By: C. Clifton Black ; foreword by Stephen E. Fowl
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781620327241
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; History; Bible
Description: "[This book] 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: Shakespeare, Washington, and Lincoln. How did these great thinkers interpret Scripture? What might their diverse approaches teach today's readers of the Old and New Testaments? What's missing in contemporary biblical interpretation that an awareness of the history of exegesis might complete? Join Clifton Black as he traverses the Bible, church history, systematic theology, Elizabethan drama, and American politics: retrieving premodern insights for a postmodern world, Reading Scripture with the Saints"--From the publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-230) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. 1. Welcome; title: Patristic Stirrings. 2. Trinity and exegesis : in which trinitarian doctrine frames a reading of Ecclesiastes; title: 3. Serving the food of full-grown adults : Augustine preaches First John in the fifth and twenty-first centuries; title: 4. Listen : Benedict rules today's biblical exposition; title: Middle Ages. 5. Transfigured exegesis : twenty centuries of interpreters teetering on Mount Tabor; title: 6. Doubtless Thomas : in which Aquinas probes the fourth gospel's prologue; title: 7. Luther times three : "Have mercy on me, O God," Martin cries across two decades; title: Some Early Moderns. 8. "Not of an age, but for all time" : King James's Job suffers with Shakespeare's Lear; title: 9. Searcher of the oracles divine : accompanying Charles Wesley on two breathtaking journeys from Jerusalem to Jericho; title: 10. American scriptures : Washington and Lincoln : biblical exegetes; title: Conclusion. 11. Until later; title: Appendices. 1. Washington's farewell; title: 2. Lincoln's second inaugural.