From biblical interpretation to human transformation
Subtitle: reopening the past to actualize new possibilities for the future : essays honoring Herman C. Waetjen
By: editors Douglas R. McGaughey, Cornelia Cyss Crocker
Publisher: Chora Strangers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Salem, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Hermeneutics; Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Hermeneutics and the act of reading.; title: Hunting for homosexuals at Corinth : exegetical tracking rules and hermeneutical caveats  -- John H. Eliott; title: Action situates  -- Douglas R. McGaughey; title: Hermeneutics of integration : a proposal for a model of biblical interpretation  -- Eung Chun Park -- Pt. 2. Critical interpretations.; title: Psalm 19 : heavenly law and order  -- Robert B. Coote; title: The reign of Christ as the inbreaking rule of the one and the many : a fresh reading of 1 Corinthians 15:20-28  -- Cornelia Cyss Crocker; title: Not "cleansing" but "closing down" : a narrative-critical and political interpretation of the so-called "cleansing of the temple" in Mark 11:11-25  -- Joseph Kang; title: Poetics of trust in God : a feminist perspective on the eschatology of Jesus  -- Luise Schottroff; title: "Calling God 'Father'" (Matt 6:9)  -- Robert H. Smith; title: Marking the new humanity : discourses on the way  -- Theodore Louis Trost; title: Who said, " I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me" (John 14:6)? : a debate between church and academy  -- Antoinette Clark Wire -- Pt. 3. Constructive application.; title: "Doers of the Word" : public theology as a feminist theology of praxis : a South African perspective  -- Denise M. Ackermanm; title: The fragility of truth : tolerance, discourse ethics and the formation of a democratic citizenry  -- James R. Cochrane; title: The radical Jesus : you cannon serve God and Mammon  -- Douglas E. Oakman; title: The historicity of myth and the myth of historicity : locating the ordinary African "reader" of the Bible in the debate -- Gerald West.