Revelation, Scripture and Church: Theological Hermeneutic Thought of James Barr, Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 1 sty 2007 - 239
How is God involved with the Bible? And how does God's involvement with the generation of Holy Scripture and its use in the life of the Christian church figure into the human work of Scripture interpretation? This is the central question that this book seeks to address. In critical conversation with the influential hermeneutic programs of James Barr, Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei, Topping demonstrates how God's agency has been marginalized in the task of scripture interpretation. Divine involvement with the Bible is bracketed out (Barr), rendered in generic terms (Ricoeur) or left implicit (Frei) in these depictions of the hermeneutic field. The result is that each of these hermeneutic programs are less than 'realist' interpretative proposals. Talk of God is eclipsed by the terminal consideration of human realities. Topping argues for the centrality of doctrinal description in a lively theological understanding of Scripture interpretation for the life of the church.
 

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Revelation and Biblical Interpretation Divine Disclosure and the Constitution of Faith
9
Manifestation and the Hermeneutic Constitution of Faith
31
Apologetics Christology and Anthropology
53
The Birth and Shape of Modern Doctrines of Revelation
55
The Bible as Holy Scripture Construal and Authority
79
The Bible as Polyphonic Intertext that Names God
104
The Bible Read Literally
130
The Church and the Bible Critically Read
155
Critical Biblical Research and the Listening Church
156
Suspicious Hermeneutics and Submissive Communities
174
The Critical Primacy of Sensus Literalis
192
Conclusion
211
Bibliography
215
Index
233
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