Bridging the divide between Bible and practical theology
By: edited by Denise Dombkowski Hopkins and Michael S. Koppel
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781527506176
Subjects: Human beings; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Practical Theology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Bruce C. Birch; title: Introduction / Denise Dombkowski Hopkins and Michael S. Koppel; title: Part I. Theoretical frameworks; title: The Hebrew Bible and suffering : understanding views of God and the human condition / Nancy R. Bowen and James Higginbotham; title: A Pacific rim hermeneutics for practical theology / Randall Y. Furushima; title: Pursuing happiness across cultures : positive psychology, Bible, African Ubuntu, and Korean Jeong in creative dialogue / Hyun Chul Paul Kim and M. Fulgence Nyengele; title: Digging below the surface : uncovering microaggressions as an act of atonement / Deborah A. Appler and Sharon A. Brown; title: Privileging the narration from 'Below' : I Corinthians 11 and practical theological method / Lance Pape; title: Part II. Reading biblical texts; title: The book of Job : on friendship, bullying, and sacrifice / Jennifer Williams; title: The poetics of care in the Psalms / Denise Dombkowski Hopkins and Michael S. Koppel; title: Creating safe sanctuaries : reading King David's last days (1 Kings 1-2) through the lens of elder abuse / Deborah A. Appler; title: Rupturing Hermeneutics : a post-shoah reading of the Shunammite woman's grief in 2 Kings 4:8-36 / Stephanie M. Wyatt; title: Rizpah's vigil (2 Samuel 21:1-14) : a Midrash / Amy Beth W. Jones and Stephanie Day Powell.