Using Scripture in a global age
Subtitle: framing biblical issues
By: C. Norman Kraus ; foreword by John A. Lapp.
Series: Institute of Mennonite Studies occasional papers ;; no. 24; Occasional papers (Institute of Mennonite Studies (Elkhart, Ind.)) ;; no. 24.
Publisher: Cascadia Pub. House; Herald Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Telford, Pa; Scottdale, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781931038355
Subjects: Bible -- Hermeneutics; Mennonites -- Doctrines; Anabaptists -- Doctrines
Description: 198 p. ; 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reading the Bible as Scripture; title: Now that the "restrictions" are gone; title: Interpreting the Bible: Anabaptist or Mennonite?; title: The role of Mennonite theological inquiry in the coming decades; title: Pacifism and nonviolence: reassessing the paradigms; title: Jesus and the politics of peace; title: From cultic taboo to ethical norm; title: An Anabaptist spirituality for the twenty-first century; title: Spirit and spirituality: reclaiming biblical transcendence; title: The primal temptation: a technological fix; title: The beginning of the assembly congregation: a theological reflection; title: How my mind has changed; title: From Mennonite fundamentalism to critical anabaptism: my story.