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Listening to the Bible : the art of faithful Biblical interpretation / Christopher Bryan ; with an appendix on liturgical reading by David Landon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199336609
  • 9780199369423
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BS476 .L578 2014
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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. --
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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. --

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