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Reading sacred scripture : voices from the history of biblical interpretation / Stephen Westerholm and Martin Westerholm. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, (c)2016.Description: x, 470 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802872296
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS500.W526.W478 2016
  • BS500
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
Before the Christian Bible -- Irenaeus -- Origen -- Chrysostom -- Augustine -- Aquinas -- Luther -- Calvin -- The Pietists and Wesley -- Schleiermacher -- Kierkegaard -- Barth -- Bonhoeffer -- Beyond the sacred page.
Subject: Though well-known and oft-repeated, the advice to read the Bible "like any other book" fails to acknowledge that different books call for different kinds of reading. The voice of Scripture summons readers to hear and respond to its words as divine address. Not everyone chooses to read the Bible on those terms, but in Reading Sacred Scripture Stephen and Martin Westerholm (father and son) invite their readers to engage seriously with a dozen major Bible interpreters --
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The voice of Scripture -- Before the Christian Bible -- Irenaeus -- Origen -- Chrysostom -- Augustine -- Aquinas -- Luther -- Calvin -- The Pietists and Wesley -- Schleiermacher -- Kierkegaard -- Barth -- Bonhoeffer -- Beyond the sacred page.

Though well-known and oft-repeated, the advice to read the Bible "like any other book" fails to acknowledge that different books call for different kinds of reading. The voice of Scripture summons readers to hear and respond to its words as divine address. Not everyone chooses to read the Bible on those terms, but in Reading Sacred Scripture Stephen and Martin Westerholm (father and son) invite their readers to engage seriously with a dozen major Bible interpreters --

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