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Reading Texts, Seeking Wisdom: Scripture and Theology
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Product Description
Wisdom is both a theme in scripture and desirable in biblical interpretation and theology. It should prove a fruitful focus for this volume, which engages with key issues and texts dealing with scripture and theology. The contributors look at how the Bible and theology have come together in the past - in Judaism, the early Church, the Middle Ages, early modernity and the 20th century. They question how current biblical scholarship is to be related to past insights and modern methods and debate how wisdom is to be related to faith and reason. They also discuss Jesus as "the wisdom of God".
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #418631 in Books
- Published on: 2003-07-21
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
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About the Author
Professor Graham Stanton is Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Professor David F Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
Customer Reviews
Excellent collection of essays linking scripture to theology
There is a general thesis behind this collection of essays, which is the attempt to try to rectify the division between doctrinal theologians and biblical scholars.
Scripture asks to be treated theologically, not picked apart by dry historical criticism, so why not do so? Reading theology out of scripture need not be the preserve of biblical conservatives: serious academics can (and should) do it too.
The essays are the result of a symposium at Cambridge University (UK) in 2003, so that's where the bulk of the academics are coming from. Essays that stand out include Rowan Williams on viewing the Bible as a sacred text (which has to be of interest to anyone considering how he is handling the Anglican Church with the Windsor report et al) and Diana Lipton, a Jewish academic, considering what to do with "unacceptable" Biblical texts, looking at the text in Deuteronomy that calls for the exterminatation of Amalek: how does this read in the light of the Holocaust?
This is a great collection: it's lively, yet penetrating and none of the essays outstays their welcome by being too long.
