Listening to the Bible : the art of faithful Biblical interpretation /
Bryan, Christopher, 1935-
Listening to the Bible : the art of faithful Biblical interpretation / Christopher Bryan ; with an appendix on liturgical reading by David Landon. - New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The division -- How did we get here? -- Why Jowett's project was impossible -- The hermeneutic of suspicion -- So what do we do? -- The first task: listening to the individual voices -- A digression: "great literature?" -- The second task: relating the parts to the whole -- The third task: so what now? -- The drama of the Word.
Christopher Bryan reflects on the often-difficult relationship between academic study of the Bible and the Church, and suggests a way forward in which scientific questions are not to be ignored, but in asking them we are not to ignore the texts' setting-in-life, which is and has always been the believing community. --
9780199336609 9780199369423
Bible--Hermeneutics.
Electronic Books.
BS476 / .L578 2014
Listening to the Bible : the art of faithful Biblical interpretation / Christopher Bryan ; with an appendix on liturgical reading by David Landon. - New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The division -- How did we get here? -- Why Jowett's project was impossible -- The hermeneutic of suspicion -- So what do we do? -- The first task: listening to the individual voices -- A digression: "great literature?" -- The second task: relating the parts to the whole -- The third task: so what now? -- The drama of the Word.
Christopher Bryan reflects on the often-difficult relationship between academic study of the Bible and the Church, and suggests a way forward in which scientific questions are not to be ignored, but in asking them we are not to ignore the texts' setting-in-life, which is and has always been the believing community. --
9780199336609 9780199369423
Bible--Hermeneutics.
Electronic Books.
BS476 / .L578 2014