Anglican Enactments of Scripture
Will be published approx. on 21. January 2027
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-9787-1734-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume gathers sixteen Anglican scholars and clergy who reflect on how their ecclesial identities shape the ways they read, teach, preach, and live Scripture. Rather than proposing a single Anglican method, the essays illuminate a heterogeneous, evolving hermeneutical tradition rooted in worship, history, pastoral practice, and ethical concern. Contributions range from text criticism and translation, through historical and theological interpretation, to preaching, communal discernment, and autobiographical reflection. Together they demonstrate how Scripture functions in company with liturgy, doctrine, and lived experience, attending carefully to language, imagination, and local context.
Written at a time of contested Anglican identity, the collection challenges reified accounts of biblical interpretation and highlights the tradition's growing edges. By integrating rigorous scholarship with ecclesial practice, these essays model "performative" readings that are intellectually responsible, spiritually attentive, and communally engaged. This first volume in the Anglican Readings of Scripture series will appeal to scholars, students, clergy, and thoughtful lay readers seeking deeper insight into the vitality and diversity of Anglican engagement with the Bible today across churches, classrooms, and communities worldwide together.
Written at a time of contested Anglican identity, the collection challenges reified accounts of biblical interpretation and highlights the tradition's growing edges. By integrating rigorous scholarship with ecclesial practice, these essays model "performative" readings that are intellectually responsible, spiritually attentive, and communally engaged. This first volume in the Anglican Readings of Scripture series will appeal to scholars, students, clergy, and thoughtful lay readers seeking deeper insight into the vitality and diversity of Anglican engagement with the Bible today across churches, classrooms, and communities worldwide together.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-1734-3 (9781978717343)
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Persons
The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge is Dean Emerita and Professor of New Testament at Seminary of the Southwest, USA.
The Rev. Canon Hugh R. Page, Jr. is Professor of Theology and Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
The Rev. Canon Hugh R. Page, Jr. is Professor of Theology and Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1.Introduction - Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Seminary of the Southwest, USA and Hugh R. Page, Jr., University of Notre Dame, USA
Part I: Text Criticism and Translation
2.The Authorized Version, Translation, and the Anglican Approach to the Scriptural Text -
Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
3.Pluralism in Text and Interpretation: from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Contemporary Anglicanism - George J. Brooke, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Part II: History of Interpretation
4.Richard Hooker as Pastor, Preacher, Theologian: Enacting Scripture in the Parish - A. Katherine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary, USA
5.World in Front of the Text: Making Scripture Local - Steven Bishop, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
6.Nineteenth-Century Anglican Women's Scriptural Interpretation - Marion Taylor, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Canada
7.Engaging the Scripture With and For the Church: A History of Effects Approach - John Yieh, Virginia Theological Seminary, USA
Part III: Anglican Readings of New Testament Texts
8.Adiaphora, Difference, and Anglican Biblical Interpretation: A Case Study from 1 Corinthians - Garwood P. Anderson, Nashotah House Theological Seminary, USA
9.Finding Social Justice in the Parables: Reading the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard in Multiple Contexts - Matthew E. Gordley, Carlow University, USA
10.Crumbs for Dogs and Demons: Supersessionism and the Holy Spirit - Reed Carlson, University of the South (Sewanee), USA
11.Nesting Sisters, Living Daughters: Mark 5:21-34 - Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Seminary of the Southwest, USA
Part IV: Practices of Preaching and Reading Scripture in Community
12.When Preaching Happens - Michael B. Curry, The Episcopal Church, USA
13.Ready to Render an Explanation of How We Read Scripture: From the Local to Lambeth to the Local - Gerald O. West, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
14.Enacting Scripture Together - John G. Lewis, Episcopal Church, USA
Jane Lancaster Patterson, Seminary of the Southwest, USA
15.Living in Trust - Ellen F. Davis, Duke Divinity School, USA
Part V: Autobiography and Interpretation
16.Hear, Read, Mark, Learn, and Inwardly Digest: Living the Lectionary -
Christian M. M. Brady, Duke University, USA
17.Toward an Afro-Anglican Blues Hermeneutic - Hugh R. Page, Jr., University of Notre Dame, USA
Index
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1.Introduction - Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Seminary of the Southwest, USA and Hugh R. Page, Jr., University of Notre Dame, USA
Part I: Text Criticism and Translation
2.The Authorized Version, Translation, and the Anglican Approach to the Scriptural Text -
Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
3.Pluralism in Text and Interpretation: from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Contemporary Anglicanism - George J. Brooke, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Part II: History of Interpretation
4.Richard Hooker as Pastor, Preacher, Theologian: Enacting Scripture in the Parish - A. Katherine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary, USA
5.World in Front of the Text: Making Scripture Local - Steven Bishop, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
6.Nineteenth-Century Anglican Women's Scriptural Interpretation - Marion Taylor, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Canada
7.Engaging the Scripture With and For the Church: A History of Effects Approach - John Yieh, Virginia Theological Seminary, USA
Part III: Anglican Readings of New Testament Texts
8.Adiaphora, Difference, and Anglican Biblical Interpretation: A Case Study from 1 Corinthians - Garwood P. Anderson, Nashotah House Theological Seminary, USA
9.Finding Social Justice in the Parables: Reading the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard in Multiple Contexts - Matthew E. Gordley, Carlow University, USA
10.Crumbs for Dogs and Demons: Supersessionism and the Holy Spirit - Reed Carlson, University of the South (Sewanee), USA
11.Nesting Sisters, Living Daughters: Mark 5:21-34 - Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Seminary of the Southwest, USA
Part IV: Practices of Preaching and Reading Scripture in Community
12.When Preaching Happens - Michael B. Curry, The Episcopal Church, USA
13.Ready to Render an Explanation of How We Read Scripture: From the Local to Lambeth to the Local - Gerald O. West, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
14.Enacting Scripture Together - John G. Lewis, Episcopal Church, USA
Jane Lancaster Patterson, Seminary of the Southwest, USA
15.Living in Trust - Ellen F. Davis, Duke Divinity School, USA
Part V: Autobiography and Interpretation
16.Hear, Read, Mark, Learn, and Inwardly Digest: Living the Lectionary -
Christian M. M. Brady, Duke University, USA
17.Toward an Afro-Anglican Blues Hermeneutic - Hugh R. Page, Jr., University of Notre Dame, USA
Index