Reading the New Testament
Published on 18. June 1989
IX, 161 pages
978-1-349-09310-6 (ISBN)
Description
Recent literary criticism and biblical scholarship are used here to discuss the New Testament's depiction of faith. The author argues that these tools can be used to present problems of religious belief imaginatively, and to bring home the full challenge of faith.
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Patrick Grant
Reading the New Testament
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05/1989
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
The New Testament and the literary reader; Mark - the anointing at Bethany; Matthew - the centurion's earthquake; Luke-Acts - the ironic travellers; John - seeing and believing; Paul to the Corinthians - "as deceivers yet true"; Hebrews - blood on the boundary; Revelation - the two-edged sword; coda.
