Interpreting Scripture
Essays on the Bible and Hermeneutics
Published on 16. April 2020
384 pages
978-0-281-08125-7 (ISBN)
Description
Interpreting Scripture brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Scripture and hermeneutics over more than two decades.
Here is a rich feast for all serious students of the Bible. Each essay will amply reward those looking for detailed, incisive and exquisitely nuanced exegesis, resulting in a clearer, deeper and more informed appreciation of Scripture and its application to Christian life and thought today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-0-281-08125-7 (9780281081257)
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04/2020
SPCK Publishing
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Person
N. T. Wright is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. His recent books include Paul and the Faithfulness of God, God in Public, The Day the Revolution Began, and Paul: A biography (all published by SPCK).
Content
- Intro
- 1 Introduction to The Language and Imagery of the Bible by G. B. Caird
- 2 The Lord's Prayer as a Paradigm of Christian Prayer
- 3 God and Caesar, Then and Now
- 4 Christian Origins and the Question of God
- 5 Faith, Virtue, Justification, and the Journey to Freedom
- 6 Neither Anarchy nor Tyranny: Government and the New Testament
- 7 The Bishop and Living under Scripture
- 8 Imagining the Kingdom: Mission and Theology in Early Christianity
- 9 Revelation and Christian Hope: Political Implications of the Revelation to John
- 10 The Monarchs and the Message: Reflections on Bible Translation from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century
- 11 Joy: Some New Testament Perspectives and Questions
- 12 Pastoral Theology for Perplexing Topics: Paul and Adiaphora
- 13 Apocalyptic and the Sudden Fulfilment of Divine Promise
- 14 The Bible and Christian Mission
- 15 Wouldn't You Love to Know? Towards a Christian View of Reality
- 16 Sign and Means of New Creation: Public Worship and the Creative Reading of Scripture
- 17 The Powerful Breath of the New Creation
- 18 Sacred Space in the City
- 19 Foreword to The Church and Its Vocation: Lesslie Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology by Michael Goheen
- 20 The Honest to God Controversy
- 21 Christ and the Cosmos: Kingdom and Creation in Gospel Perspective
- 22 Get the Story Right and the Models Will Fit: Victory through Substitution in 'Atonement Theology'
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Index of Modern Authors
