Christ Meets Me Everywhere: Augustine’s Early Figurative Exegesis. By Michael Cameron
This admirable and highly accessible work of scholarship tells how Augustine came to understand and expound the Christian Bible, and in particular how he understood the rightful place of the Old Testament within the Scriptures, ‘by learning how to read it figuratively’ (p. 7). In particular, it char...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 733-737 |
| Review of: | Christ meets me everywhere (New York : Oxford University Press, 2012) (Finn, Richard Damian)
Christ meets me everywhere (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012) (Finn, Richard Damian) Christ meets me everywhere (New York : Oxford University Press, 2012) (Finn, Richard Damian) Christ meets me everywhere (New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012) (Finn, Richard Damian) |
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| Summary: | This admirable and highly accessible work of scholarship tells how Augustine came to understand and expound the Christian Bible, and in particular how he understood the rightful place of the Old Testament within the Scriptures, ‘by learning how to read it figuratively’ (p. 7). In particular, it charts the developments by which Augustine’s figurative exegesis, influenced by his rereading of St Paul, interacted with his Christology, so that reading the Scriptures became a privileged place of encounter with Christ. The book covers the years from 386, when Augustine at Milan accepted Ambrose’s figurative approach to the Old Testament, to around 400, when the Bishop of Hippo could adeptly deploy figurative exegesis in his Confessions and Contra Faustum. |
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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/flt168 |