Seized by Truth: Reading the Bible as Scripture. By Joel B. Green
This is a lucid and accessible introduction to what it can mean to read the Bible as Scripture. Green makes clear that ‘to refer to “Scripture” rather than “Bible” introduces a category difference in assumptions and aims’ (pp. 4–5). Among other things, this makes space for the specifically theologic...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Oxford University Press
2009
|
| In: |
The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 596-597 |
| Review of: | Seized by truth (Nashville, Tenn. : Abingdon, 2007) (Moberly, Walter)
|
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
|
| Online Access: |
Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This is a lucid and accessible introduction to what it can mean to read the Bible as Scripture. Green makes clear that ‘to refer to “Scripture” rather than “Bible” introduces a category difference in assumptions and aims’ (pp. 4–5). Among other things, this makes space for the specifically theological understanding that ‘what separates us from the biblical text is not “the strange world of the Bible” as much as its unhandy, inconvenient claims on our lives’ (p. 55), with the consequence that ‘the fundamental transformation that must take place is not the transformation of an ancient message into contemporary idiom but rather the transformation of our lives by means of God's Word’ (p. 101). |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp002 |