Title: The canonical approach
First published: 1995
Description: The Canonical Approach makes a detailed assessment of Brevard Childs' 'canonical approach' to biblical interpretation. A careful analysis of Childs' work identifies a number of historical, hermeneutical, and theological issues that are central both to Childs' programme and to the wider methodological debate. These include the adequacy of the historical-critical tools, their relationship to the more recent, 'synchronic', approaches, the role of the interpreter's own presuppositions, the viability of working from a specific faith-commitment, and ways in which the ancient texts can 'speak' to the modern church. After an incisive discussion of these questions it is suggested how Childs' programme can be set on a sounder methodological basis. This book is particularly notable for its clarification of Childs' approach, and for its original solutions to a number of central methodological problems.
Subjects: Bible, Canonical criticism, Criticism, interpretation, History, 11.36 biblical theoogy, Biblische Theologie, Critique canonique, Hermeneutik, Histoire, Bibel, Bijbelse theologie, Critique, interprétation, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., Bible, hermeneutics
People: Brevard S. Childs
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: BS521.8 .N63 1995