Time and the word : figural reading of the Christian scriptures / Ephraim Radner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radner, Ephraim, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Hermeneutics.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 326 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Michighan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016.

Summary:

Time and the Word presents the first significant theological account of the foundations and methods of the figural reading of Scripture, reintroducing contemporary scholars to a traditional approach to biblical interpretation that dates back to Jewish practice from before the time of Jesus. Figural interpretation continued in prominence through the early church, the Middle Ages, and into the early modern period before being forcefully rejected with the rise of historical criticism. Embracing "spiritual," "allegorical," and "prophetical" ways of understanding the Bible, figural reading once offered a broad approach to reading Scripture -- an approach that Ephraim Radner here engages through a foundational theological lens. In Time and the Word Radner first uncovers the theological presuppositions of figural reading, historically and philosophically, focusing especially on the Christian understanding of time and the divine. He then moves from the theoretical to the concrete, looking at examples of how figural reading of the Bible gives rise to specific doctrinal claims about God and informs Christian teaching and preaching.

Contents:

Part 1. The history and theology of figural reading. Figural history as a question

The fate of figural reading

Imagining figural time

Creative omnipotence and the figures of scripture

Figural speech and the incarnational synecdoche

Part 2. Figural reading in practice. Juxtapositional reading and the force of the lectionary

Trinitarian love means two testaments

The Word's work: figural preaching and scriptural conformance

Appendix: Four figural sermons.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780802872203

0802872204

OCLC:

921167328

Publisher Number:

99969701850

40026593301