Psychological hermeneutics for biblical themes and texts
Subtitle: a Festschrift in honor of Wayne G. Rollins
By: edited by J. Harold Ellens
Contributors: Rollins, Wayne G.
Series: T & T Clark biblical studies; T & T Clark biblical studies
Publisher: T & T Clark Ltd
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780567595867
Subjects: Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Religious aspects; Authority; Evidences, authority; Hermeneutics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I Approach: 1. Introduction / J. Harold Ellens; title: 2. Analytical psychology and biblical interpretation: Jung and the Bible (Rollins, 1983) / D. Andrew Kille; title: 3. Psychology and biblical studies: birth and development of a new SBL program unit (1991-2011); title: 4. Psychological biblical criticism: envisioning its prospects / Donald Capps; title: 5. Psychology and the Bible (Rollins and Ellens, 2004): How the interface of these disciplines works in real life / F. Morgan Roberts; title: 6. Psychological insight into the Bible: texts and readings (Rollins and Kille, 2007) / Ralph L. Underwood; title: 7. The problem of writing a psycho-biography of Jesus / Bas van Os; title: 8. From God to psychology: a sketch of the soul's self-transformation through myth and history / Hal Childs; title: pt. II Application: 9.A hermeneutic of human dignity: the future of psychological biblical interpretation? / Michael Willett Newheart.; title: 10. Satire and cognitive dissonance in the Book of Jonah, in the light of Ellens' laws of psychological hermeneutics / Virginia Ingram; title: 11. About the character ethics of Scripture / Andre LaCocque; title: 12. The suffering servant of Isaiah in cognitive-critical perspective: logotherapy and the Bible / Paul N. Anderson; title: 13. The compassion of God as the basis for other-directedness / Fredrick H. Shively; title: 14. Psychological hermeneutics in homilies for worship: L'unique objet de l'ecriture est la charite (Pascal) / Schuyler Brown; title: 15. Psychology and the Hebrew Bible, read through the lenses of Freud and Lacan / Ilona N. Rashkow; title: 16. Psychology, sexuality, and the clinical pastoral movement / Raymond J. Lawrence.