Language for God in patristic tradition
Subtitle: wrestling with biblical anthropomorphism
By: Mark Sheridan ; foreword by Thomas C. Oden
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780830840649
Subjects: Bible; God (Christianity); Biblical teaching; God; Criticism, interpretation; Anthropomorphism; Hermeneutics
Description: "Language for God in Patristic Tradition is a landmark resource for students of ancient Christian theology. Wide-ranging in scope and accessible in its analysis, it demonstrates that those engaged in theological interpretation of Scripture have much to gain from studying their forebears in the faith." -- Publisher's website
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: God is not like humans; title: The philosophers' critique of myth and the defense of Homer through allegorical interpretation; title: Hellenistic Jewish interpretation of the scriptures; title: The interpretation of the scriptures in the New Testament : a model for later writers; title: The early Christian writers; title: Three classic cases; title: The special problem of the Psalms; title: Ancient and modern ways of dealing with the problematic texts; title: Appendix: Ancient Christian hermeneutics : the presuppositions, the criteria and the rules employed; title: Biographical sketches of early Christian writers and other significant authors.