Ben F. Meyer

Gebundenes Buch

Reality and Illusion in New Testament Scholarship

Beschreibung

Reality and Illusion in New Testament Scholarship is a basic introduction to the theory of interpretation and theory of history for New Testament readers, students, and scholars. It offers an entry into the thought of the late, great Bernard Lonergan on insight and judgment, subjectivity and objectivity, horizons and changes of horizon, alienation and ideology. It focuses on what it takes to measure up to the literature of the New Testament.

Autor

Ben Meyer (1927-1995) studied with the Jesuits, his studies taking him to California, Stasbourg, Gottingen, and Rome, where he received his doctorate from the Universita Gregoriana in 1965. He taught briefly at Alma College and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley before joining the faculty at McMaster University in 1969, where he taught in the Department of Religious Studies until 1992. Meyer's areas of specialization included the historical Jesus, the early expansion of the Christian movement, and the hermeneutics of Bernard Lonergan. He authored several important monographs, including 'The Aims of Jesus', 'The Early Christians', 'Critical Realism and the New Testament', 'Christus Faber', and 'Reality and Illusion in New Testament Scholarship'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781532602870
• ISBN-10: 1532602871
• Artikelnr.: 45641791