1st Edition
Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context
By Oral A. W. Thomas
Copyright 2010
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Bible is of central importance within Caribbean life but is rarely used as an agent for social change. Caribbean biblical hermeneutics focus more on the meaning of biblical texts for today and less on the context in which the texts themselves were written. 'Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context' offers a biblical hermeneutic that acknowledges the importance of the... Read more
Introduction 1. Tracking biblical hermeneutical practices within the Caribbean 2. Analysing biblical hermeneutics within the Caribbean 3. Putting Philemon in its place 4. Readings of Philemon 5. Towards a biblical resistant hermeneutic within a Caribbean context 6. Implications of a biblical resistant hermeneutic within the Caribbean context. Conclusion
Biography
Oral Thomas is a Methodist minister in the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas (MCCA) and Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Theology at the United Theological College of the West Indies.
