Privilege the Text!
Subtitle: a theological hermeneutic for preaching
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780802407139
Description: Privilege the Text! spans the conceptual gap between biblical text and ülife application by providing a rigorous theological hermeneutic for preaching. Kuruvilla describes the theological entity that is the intermediary between ancient text and modern audience, and defines its crucial function in determining valid application. Based on this hermeneutic, he submits a new mode of reading Scripture for preaching: a Christiconic interpretation of the biblical text, a hermeneutically robust way to understand the depiction of the Second Person of the Trinity in Scripture. In addition, Kuruvilla's work provides a substantive theology of spiritual formation through preaching: what it means to obey God, the Christian's responsibility to undertake "faith-full" obedience to divine demand, and the incentives for such obedience-all integral to understanding the sermonic movement from text to application. Privilege the Text! promises to be useful not only for preachers, and students and teachers of homiletics, but for all who are interested in the exposition of Scripture that culminates in application for the glory of God. - Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: General and special hermeneutics; title: Pericopes, theology, and application; title: Divine demand and faithful obedience; title: The Aqedah and Christiconic interpretation; title: Conclusion