Allegorizing history
Subtitle: the Venerable Bede, figural exegesis, and historical theory
By: Timothy J. Furry
Series: Distinguished Dissertations in Christian Theology -- 10; Distinguished dissertations in Christian theology -- 10.
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781620326565
Subjects: Historiography; History; Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation; Christianity
Notes: Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D. in Theology)--University of Dayton, 2011 under title: From past to present and beyond : the Venerable Bede, figural exegesis, and historical theory.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-157) and index.
Table of contents: title: (Re)framing history : a contemporary historiography of Bede's Historia; title: Can history be figural? : a study of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and De templo; title: Interpreting Genesis : creation and the relationship between the literal and figural senses; title: Anachronism and the status of the past in Bede's Historia and figural exegesis; title: Bede and Frank Ankersmit : the inevitability of figural history.