Scripture or Tradition? - Foregrounding Some Hermeneutical Assumptions in Readings of Genesis 1-3
This paper invites readers to examine the assumptions which they bring into play when they read the accounts of creation and fall in Genesis 1-3. Following ancient patristic wisdom in the writings of the fourth-century Ephrem Syrus, it is suggested that the notion of God freely choosing to limit Him...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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| In: |
Baptist quarterly
Year: 2018, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 61-74 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Ephrem
B limit B Genesis B Hymns on Paradise B Bible. Genesis 1-3 B Accommodation B patristic hermeneutics |
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Volltext (Publisher) |
| Summary: | This paper invites readers to examine the assumptions which they bring into play when they read the accounts of creation and fall in Genesis 1-3. Following ancient patristic wisdom in the writings of the fourth-century Ephrem Syrus, it is suggested that the notion of God freely choosing to limit Himself in human language may be a useful hermeneutical key to help us read these ancient texts with integrity. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-7731 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Baptist quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2017.1343893 |
