Missiological Hermeneutics

Missiological Hermeneutics
Author: Shawn B. Redford
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1630870382

How have those engaged in the mission of God been challenged to reinterpret Scripture through their experience? In what ways were the missionaries in the Bible challenged to reevaluate Scripture in their own time? Redford attempts to give shape to the nature of missional hermeneutics by examining Scripture, present-day cultural values, historical struggles, and the experience of those who are engaged in the mission of God. In order for missionaries to overcome the scientific polarization in Western hermeneutics, they must be able to perceive and learn from the overarching missional and spiritual hermeneutics found throughout Scripture so that they can balance missional, spiritual, historical-critical, and even unforeseen hermeneutical paths, providing increased confidence in biblical interpretation.

Reading the Bible Around the World

Reading the Bible Around the World
Author: Federico Alfredo Roth
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 151400187X

Who we are shapes how we read. Guided by an expert team of crosscultural scholars, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the influence of their own social location, building up self-awareness, other-awareness, and true dialogue in the process. Grow in your biblical wisdom as you read Scripture alongside the global Christian community.

Global Hermeneutics?

Global Hermeneutics?
Author: International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament. Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2010
Genre: RELIGION
ISBN: 9781589835931

Biblical Hermeneutics

Biblical Hermeneutics
Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-04-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830869999

This book presents proponents of five approaches to biblical hermeneutics and allows them to respond to each other. The five approaches are the historical-critical/grammatical (Craig Blomberg), redemptive-historical (Richard Gaffin), literary/postmodern (Scott Spencer), canonical (Robert Wall) and philosophical/theological (Merold Westphal) views.

Scripture and Its Interpretation

Scripture and Its Interpretation
Author: Michael J. Gorman
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493406175

Top-notch biblical scholars from around the world and from various Christian traditions offer a fulsome yet readable introduction to the Bible and its interpretation. The book concisely introduces the Old and New Testaments and related topics and examines a wide variety of historical and contemporary interpretive approaches, including African, African-American, Asian, and Latino streams. Contributors include N. T. Wright, M. Daniel Carroll R., Stephen Fowl, Joel Green, Michael Holmes, Edith Humphrey, Christopher Rowland, and K. K. Yeo, among others. Questions for reflection and discussion, an annotated bibliography, and a glossary are included.

The Hermeneutics of Hell

The Hermeneutics of Hell
Author: Gregor Thuswaldner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319521985

This collection of essays analyzes global depictions of the devil from theological, Biblical, and literary perspectives, spanning the late Middle Ages to the 21st century. The chapters explore demonic representations in the literary works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dante Alighieri, Charles Baudelaire, John Milton, H.P. Lovecraft, and Cormac McCarthy, among others. The text examines other media such as the operas Orfeo and Erminia sul Giordano and the television shows Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and Mad Men. The Hermeneutics of Hell, featuring an international set of established and up-and-coming authors, masterfully examines the evolution of the devil from the Biblical accounts of the Middle Ages to the individualized presence of the modern world.

Spirit Hermeneutics

Spirit Hermeneutics
Author: Keener
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2016
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0802874398

How do we hear the Spirit's voice in Scripture? Once we have done responsible exegesis, how may we expect the Spirit to apply the text to our lives and communities? In Spirit Hermeneutics biblical scholar Craig Keener addresses these questions, carefully articulating how the experience of the Spirit that empowered the church on the day of Pentecost can -- and should -- dynamically shape our reading of Scripture today. Keener considers what Spirit-guided interpretation means, explores implications of an epistemology of Word and Spirit for biblical hermeneutics, and shows how Scripture itself models an experiential appropriation of its message. Bridging the Word-Spirit gap between academic and experiential Christian approaches, Spirit Hermeneutics narrates a way of reading the Bible that is faithful both to the Spirit-inspired biblical text and the experience of the Spirit among believers. -- from book flap.

The Future of Biblical Interpretation

The Future of Biblical Interpretation
Author: Matthew R Malcolm
Publisher: Authentic Media Inc
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1780783124

How should we expect multiple interpretations of the Bible to be kept in check? Each of the contributors, experts in the field, considers one parameter of responsibility, which may act as a constraint on the validity of competing biblical interpretations. Stanley E. Porter considers theological resposibility; Walter Moberly on ecclesial reponsibility; Richard S. Briggs on scriptural responsibility; Matthew R Malcolm on kerygmatic responsibility; James D.G. Dunn on historical reponsibility; Robert C. Morgan on critical; Tom Greggs on relational responsibility and Anthony C Thiselton considers the topic as a whole. What emereges is a plurivocal but concordant projection of fruitful ways forward for biblical interpretation.

Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics

Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics
Author: Graeme Goldsworthy
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2014-06-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830898360

In this new paperback version, Graeme Goldsworthy examines the foundations and presuppositions of evangelical belief as it applies to the interpretation of the Bible. He then proposes an evangelical hermeneutic rightly centered in the gospel.

African Hermeneutics

African Hermeneutics
Author: Elizabeth Mburu
Publisher: Langham Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1783685387

Interpretation of Scripture occurs within one’s worldview and culture, which enhances our understanding and ability to apply Scripture in the world. However, few books address Bible interpretation from an African perspective and no other textbook uses the intercultural approach found here. This book brings both an awareness of how one’s African context gives a lens to hermeneutics, but also how to interpret texts with integrity despite our cultural influences. African Hermeneutics was born of Prof Elizabeth Mburu’s frustration at only having textbooks that predominantly followed a Western worldview to teach her African students. Mburu’s approach to hermeneutics is one that begins in Africa, moving from the known to the unknown as students learn to apply her ‘four-legged stool model’ to biblical texts, namely examining: the parallels to African contexts, the theological context, the literary context, and the historical and cultural context. This textbook will help students and pastors interpret Scripture with greater accuracy in their own context, allowing for faithful application in their local contexts.