RT Book
T1 Reading the Bible in Australia
A2 Storie, Deborah R.
A2 Deutschmann, Barbara
A2 Eastwood, Michelle
LA English
PP Eugene, Oregon
PB Wipf & Stock
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1947731920
AB "Reading the Bible in Australia invites reflection about how the Bible matters to Australia. Contributors probe intersections between vital debates about Australian identity (who we have been, are, and aspire to become) and the Bible, bringing a range of perspectives to critical themes--indigeneity, colonization, and migration; landscape, biodiversity, and climate; gender and marginality; economics, ideology, and rhetoric. Each chapter explores the past and present influence of a biblical text or theme. Some offer fresh contextually and ethically informed readings. All interrogate the wider outcomes of reading the Bible in different ways. Given the tragic consequences of how it has been used historically, and sometimes still is, some Australians would exclude the Bible and its interpreters from public debate. Yet, as Meredith Lake's The Bible in Australia demonstrates, "a degree of biblical literacy--along with critical skill in evaluating how the Bible has been taken up and interpreted in our history--can only help Australians grapple well with the choices Australia faces." Love it or hate it, there is no getting around the reality that the Bible, and how it is read, still matters." --
NO Includes bibliographical references
CN BS540
SN 978-1-6667-7941-7
SN 1-6667-7941-5
SN 978-1-6667-7942-4
SN 1-6667-7942-3
K1 Bible : Criticism, interpretation, etc : Australia
K1 Bible : Influence
K1 Bible : Appreciation : Australia
K1 Bible - Influence
K1 Bible - Appréciation - Australie
K1 Bible - Critique, interprétation, etc - Australie
K1 Christianity : Australia
K1 Christianisme - Australie
K1 Australia : Religion
K1 Australie - Religion