The Multivalence of Biblical Texts and Theological Meanings. Edited by Christine Helmer
Achieving a rapprochement between theology and the Bible has eluded scholars since the eighteenth-century rise of historical-critical studies of previously sacrosanct scriptural texts to a position of pre-eminence in the scholarly world. This collection represents an often stimulating, if flawed, at...
| Résumé: | Achieving a rapprochement between theology and the Bible has eluded scholars since the eighteenth-century rise of historical-critical studies of previously sacrosanct scriptural texts to a position of pre-eminence in the scholarly world. This collection represents an often stimulating, if flawed, attempt to achieve that goal. The fundamental difficulty lies in radical differences between the text on the one hand (contradictory, infuriating, and provocative) and theological discourse on the other (logical, coherent, and formally systematic). Before the modern era allegorical and typological approaches created the appearance of system in the biblical texts, but are scarcely available today. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm140 |