What Is the Bible?
The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture
Published on 1. April 2016
224 pages
978-1-5064-0805-7 (ISBN)
Description
The patristic doctrine of Scripture is an understudied topic. Recent scholars, however, have shown considerable interest in patristic exegetical strategies and methods-from rhetoric and typology, to theory and method; far less attention, though, has been paid to the early Christian understanding of the nature of Scripture itself. This volume explores the patristic vision of the Bible-the understanding of Scripture as the word of life and salvation, the theological, liturgical, and ascetical practice of reading-and is anchored by keynote essays from Fr. John McGuckin, Paul Blowers, and Michael Legaspi.
The purpose is to reopen a consideration of the doctrine of Scripture for contemporary theology, rooted in the tradition of the Church Fathers (Greek, Latin, and Oriental), an endeavor inspired by the theological vision of the twentieth century's foremost Orthodox Christian theologian, Fr. Georges Florovsky. Our interest is not in mere description of historical uses of Scripture or interpretive methods, but rather in the very nature of Scripture itself and its place within the whole economy of creation, revelation, and salvation.
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Edited by Matthew Baker; Mark Mourachian; William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll
Content
- Intro
- What Is the Bible?
- What Is the Bible?
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Approaches in the Christian East
- The Exegetical Metaphysic of Origen of Alexandria
- A "Doctrine of Scripture" from the Eastern Orthodox Tradition: A Reflection on the Desert Father Saint Sarapion of Thmuis
- "He Has Clothed Himself in Our Language": The Incarnational Hermeneutic of Saint Ephrem the Syrian
- John Chrysostom on the Nature of Revelation and Task of Exegesis
- Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos on Scripture: Voices from the Desert in Sixth-Century Gaza
- The Transfiguration of Jesus Christ as "Saturated Phenomenon" and as a Key to the Dynamics of Biblical Revelation in Saint Maximus the Confessor
- Scripture as Divine Mystery: The Bible in the Philokalia
- Modern Approaches Inspired by the Fathers
- The Bible as Heilsgeschichte: The Basic Axis and Scope of Georges Florovsky's Neopatristic Synthesis
- The Gospel according to Saint Justin the New: Justin Popovic on Scripture
- Reality and Biblical Interpretation: T. F. Torrance's Retrieval of Patristic Hermeneutics
- Merely Academic: A Brief History of Modern Biblical Criticism
