Rendering the Word in Theological Hermeneutics: Mapping Divine and Human Agency. By Mark Alan Bowald
Mark Bowald, of Redeemer University College, Canada, traces the absence of references to the divine agency of the Bible to the Enlightenment and to Kant. The purpose of the book, he states, is ‘to challenge a misleading legacy of Enlightenment epistemology’ (p. 19). This legacy, he claims, produced...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 587-589 |
| Review of: | Rendering the Word in Theological Hermeneutics (Aldershot : Taylor and Francis, 2007) (Thiselton, Anthony C.)
Rendering the Word in theological hermeneutics (Aldershot : Ashgate, 2007) (Thiselton, Anthony C.) |
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| Summary: | Mark Bowald, of Redeemer University College, Canada, traces the absence of references to the divine agency of the Bible to the Enlightenment and to Kant. The purpose of the book, he states, is ‘to challenge a misleading legacy of Enlightenment epistemology’ (p. 19). This legacy, he claims, produced ‘confused’ readings of Scripture, which failed to take account of divine agency in the inspiration of Scripture. He argues that hermeneutics since the Enlightenment marginalizes divine agency. It concentrates on the reader and the act of reading. Bowald blames especially Kant's epistemology, which turns, he argues, on the distinction between opinion, belief, and knowledge. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln106 |