Kathryn Greene-McCreight

Gebundenes Buch

Ad Litteram

How Augustine, Calvin, and Barth Read the "Plain Sense" of Genesis 1-3

Beschreibung

One of the most complex problems in Christian interpretation of the Bible is the question of what constitutes a "plain sense" reading of scripture. This study breaks fresh ground by examining understandings of the plain sense of scripture along a trajectory represented by Augustine, John Calvin, and Karl Barth. Analyzing their readings of Genesis 1-3, Professor Greene-McCreight focuses on Augustine's De Genesi ad Litteram, libri XII , Calvin's Commentary on the First Book of Moses , and Barth's Church Dogmatics 3.1 . The results of this investigation urge an ecumenically significant understanding of the plain sense of scripture: within this theological trajectory, reading according to the plain sense involves a negotiation between the constraints of verbal sense and the Rule of Faith.

Autor

The Author: K. E. Greene-McCreight teaches in the Religious Studies Department at Connecticut College. She received her M.Div. and S.T.M. from Yale Divinity School and her Ph.D. in Theology from Yale University, where she was a Franke Fellow in Humanities. The author of several articles on Christian biblical interpretation and theological use of scripture, Professor Greene-McCreight is writing a book on the role of the biblical narrative in feminist theology, thanks to a grant from the Pew Evangelical Scholars Trust.

Produktdetails

• Issues in Systematic Theology 5
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 63992
• Neuausg.
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 160mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780820439921
• ISBN-10: 0820439924
• Artikelnr.: 24540497

Rezensionen

"Greene-McCreight's readable study contributes not only to the historical study of biblical interpretation but, even more significantly, to the efforts of scholars and pastors who struggle with issues in contemporary hermeneutics." (Rebecca Harden Weaver, Interpretation)
"K.E. Greene-McCreight's book 'Ad Litteram' engages a theological issue that lies at the very heart of the modern hermeneutical debate over Scripture. She explores with great learning and penetrating insight the relation of the literal sense of the text to the church's Rule of Faith. Using the exegesis of Augustine, Calvin, and Barth as an initial guide she offers a profound and persuasive proposal for a faithful Christian reading of the Bible for today." (Brevard S.

Childs, Yale University)
"This book builds well on previous scholarship and advances our understanding of biblical interpretation in the West to a new level of insight and sophistication. By focusing on how three pre-eminent theologians from very different periods, but with a common commitment to the Rule of Faith, treated a single neuralgic topic in a specific important text, the author succeeds in probing more deeply and in more detail than any previous writer into the surprising combination of flexibility and continuity in the mainstream exegetical tradition. Not only the tradition as a whole is thereby illuminated, but also each of the three major figures, and not only their treatments of the plain sense of Genesis 1-3, but the totality of their hermeneutical and theological outlooks. Both historians and theologians will find this study instructive and stimulating." (George A. Lindbeck, Yale University)