Learning the language of Scripture
Subtitle: Origen, wisdom, and the logic of interpretation
By: by Mark Randall James
Series: Studies in systematic theology -- volume 24
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004448537; 9789004448544
Subjects: Sermons; Hermeneutics; Historiography; Theology; Methodology; History; Bible
Description: "In Learning the Language of Scripture, Mark Randall James offers a new account of theological interpretation as a sapiential practice of learning the language of Scripture, drawing on recently discovered Homilies on the Psalms by the influential early theologian Origen of Alexandria (2nd-3rd c. C.E). Widely regarded as one of the most arbitrary interpreters, James shows that Origen's appearance of arbitrariness is a result of the modern tendency to neglect the role of wisdom in scriptural interpretation. James demonstrates that Origen offers a compelling model of a Christian pragmatism in which learning and correcting linguistic practice is a site of the transformative pedagogy of the divine Logos"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Origen and stoic logic; title: From lexis to logos; title: The pragmatics of scriptural utterances; title: The grammar of scriptural language; title: The deification of discourse; title: Origenism as pragmatism : a sketch of a sapiential hermeneutic.