
Wisdom in the World
Brian C. Hughes(Author)
Pickwick Publications (Publisher)
Published on 31. October 2024
Book
Hardback
264 pages
979-8-3852-1597-3 (ISBN)
Description
How can an ancient text, written far from a contemporary Christian in time and space, be taken up as life-transforming Scripture today? This book seeks to address that question in a study of Proverbs 8, a passage that was central to the Christological debates of the fourth century, but for many contemporary Christians seems remote and irrelevant. In the course of the study, the instincts and insights of pre-modern Christians and modern critical methods are taken up to understand the passage. Additionally, the text is placed in conversation with contemporary philosophical reflection on the nature of reading and meaning. In this latter endeavor, Charles Taylor, Paul Ricoeur, Nicholas Lash, and George Lindbeck are all drawn into engagement with the passage. Emerging from this conversation is a sense of Wisdom in the world, beckoning the Christian into a particular mode of being-in-the-world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-3852-1597-3 (9798385215973)
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E-Book
10/2024
Wipf and Stock Publishers
€34.99
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Persons
Brian C. Hughes serves as rector of Holy Spirit Anglican Church in San Diego. He teaches adjunct for Trinity Anglican Seminary and Pacific Theological Seminary.