Beyond Biblical theology
Subtitle: sacralized culturalism in Heikki Räisänen's hermeneutics
By: by Timo Eskola
Series: Biblical interpretation series -- VOLUME 123; Biblical interpretation series -- v. 123.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9789004256927; 9789004258037
Subjects: Bible; Herméneutique; Criticism, interpretation; Histoire; Critique et exégèse; Hermeneutics; History
Description: Reading Heikki Raisanen s hermeneutics in context, Timo Eskola explores the development of Western New Testament interpretation. Proposing sociology as the link between standard historicism and poststructuralism, Raisanen reinterprets the sociology of knowledge. He substitutes sacralized culturalism for biblical theology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-472) and index.

English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reading Räisänen's biblical criticism in context; title: From Riccoldo to Reimarus to Räisänen; title: A panorama of natural theology : the chain of interpretation; title: In the shadow of Weber : religion as culture, culture as religion; title: It is all signs : reading poststructuralism; title: Räisänen's Wolfenbüttelian turn : dissolving the old Systema; title: The debate over New Testament theology; title: A chain of interpretation or a semiotic cathedral?; title: The rise of Christian beliefs; title: From Quran criticism to sociological reductionism; title: Conclusion : chains of interpretation.