Reading Scripture to Hear God

Introduction
Theological Interpretation of Scripture and the Opportunity for Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue
Kevin Vanhoozer: God's Speech-Acts
Beyond Postliberals and Revisionists
Henri de Lubac: Ressourcement
Beyond Modernism and Neo-Thomism
Description of the Project

Chapter 1
God's Use of Scripture for Self-Communication: Divine Speaking in the Literal and Spiritual Sense
Introduction: Vanhoozer and de Lubac and the Literal and Spiritual Senses
Kevin Vanhoozer: God's Authorship of Scripture and the Sufficiency of the Literal Sense
Henri de Lubac: Christ's Presence in Scripture and the Necessity of the Spiritual Sense
Conclusion: Persistent Challenges and Dialogue

Chapter 2
Vanhoozer's Covenantal Ontology and de Lubac's Sacramental Ontology: Different Models of Christ's Self-Mediation in the Economy of Redemption
Introduction
Vanhoozer's Communicative/Covenantal Ontology and God's Use of Scripture
De Lubac's Sacramental Ontology and God's Use of Scripture
Convergence: Trans-Figural Reading and the Spiritual Sense of Scripture

Chapter 3
God's Use of Scripture and Church in the Economy of Redemption
Introduction: Vanhoozer's Covenant Ecclesiology and de Lubac's Sacramental Ecclesiology
Vanhoozer's Covenant Ecclesiology
De Lubac's Sacramental Ecclesiology
Convergence: Development of Doctrine as Extending Canonical
Meaning Potential or Reading as the Totus Christus?

Conclusion
Bibliography