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Reading the Bible theologically / Darren Sarisky, University of Oxford. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Current issues in theologyPublication details: Cambridge ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2019.Description: xix, 407 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108497480
  • 9781108734097
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS476.S245.R433 2019
  • BS476
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Contents:
1. The reader, redemption, and signs -- 2. Between scientia and the Trinity
3. In contradistinction to naturalism -- 4. Faith and the ecclesial community -- 5. The Bible and theological semiotics -- 6. Exegetical ends and means -- Conclusion.
Summary: Theological interpretation of the Bible is one of the most significant debates within theology today. Yet what exactly is theological reading? Darren Sarisky proposes that it requires identification of the reader via a theological anthropology; an understanding of the text as a collection of signs; and reading the text with a view toward engaging with what it says of transcendence. Accounts of theological reading do not often give explicit focus to the place of the reader, but this work seeks to redress this neglect. Sarisky examines Augustine's approach to the Bible and how his theological insights into the reader and the text generate an aim for interpretation, which is fulfilled by fitting reading strategies. He also engages with Spinoza, showing that theological exegesis contrasts not with approaches that take history seriously, but with naturalistic approaches to reading.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

PART 1 - THE MODEL OF AUGUSTINE: -- 1. The reader, redemption, and signs -- 2. Between scientia and the Trinity

PART 2 - A CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSAL: -- 3. In contradistinction to naturalism -- 4. Faith and the ecclesial community -- 5. The Bible and theological semiotics -- 6. Exegetical ends and means -- Conclusion.

Theological interpretation of the Bible is one of the most significant debates within theology today. Yet what exactly is theological reading? Darren Sarisky proposes that it requires identification of the reader via a theological anthropology; an understanding of the text as a collection of signs; and reading the text with a view toward engaging with what it says of transcendence. Accounts of theological reading do not often give explicit focus to the place of the reader, but this work seeks to redress this neglect. Sarisky examines Augustine's approach to the Bible and how his theological insights into the reader and the text generate an aim for interpretation, which is fulfilled by fitting reading strategies. He also engages with Spinoza, showing that theological exegesis contrasts not with approaches that take history seriously, but with naturalistic approaches to reading.

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