Kings and priests
Subtitle: Scripture's theological account of its readers
By: Uche Anizor ; with a forward by Daniel J. Treier
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781625644824
Subjects: Bible; Hermeneutics; Universal Priesthood; Theology
Description: The history of modern biblical interpretation is checkered with attempts to rethink and resituate readers theologically and ethically. At least two tendencies emerge in these remedial proposals, both of which animate this project: (1) many accounts privilege either divine action (theology) or human, ecclesial response (ethics); (2) few proposals have availed themselves of the potential hermeneutical resources of a more extensive biblical theology. This study offers a theological and ethical account of Christian readers of Scripture--one that brings together these two apparently divergent poles--through the deployment of a biblical theological motif: royal priesthood. The designation of the people of God as a royal priesthood, conditioned and informed by the offices of king and priest, carries with it themes that frame the hermeneutical situation in such a way that accounts well for the integral relation of divine agency and ecclesial response, theology and ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On locating the readers of Scripture; title: Part 1. Royal priesthood and "reading" in biblical-theological perspective. Royal priesthood meets the Word of God : a biblical-theological sketch; title: Virtuous royal reading : the king as the ideal "exemplarist" reader of Scripture; title: Reading pro ecclesia : the priest as the ideal "didactic" reader of Scripture; title: Part 2. Royal priesthood and "reading" in Christ's church. Royal priestly reading in christological perspective : Jesus Christ as the ideal reader; title: Martin Luther, the priesthood of all believers, and the Word of God : toward a theology of readers; title: Part 3. Royal priesthood and "reading" in covenant life. Divine dramatics : royal priesthood as a theological account of the readers of Scripture; title: Response and responsibility : royal priesthood as an ethical account of the readers of Scripture.