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Rendering the Word in Theological Hermeneutics Mapping Divine and Human Agency
By Mark Alan Bowald
Copyright 2007
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book proposes an original typology for grasping the differences between diverse types of biblical interpretation, fashioned in a triangle around a major theological and philosophical lacuna: the relation between divine and human action. Despite their purported concern for reading God's word, most modern and postmodern approaches to biblical interpretation do not seriously consider the role of... Read more
Chapter 1 The Eclipsing and Usurping of Divine Agency in Enlightenment Epistemology and their Influence on Scriptural Hermeneutics; Chapter 2 A Triangle Typology: Mapping Divine and Human Agency in Contemporary Theological Hermeneutics; Chapter 3 Type One: Human Agency in the “Text”; Chapter 4 Type Two: Human Agency in the “Reading”; Chapter 5 Type Three: Prioritizing Divine Agency: God’s Agency In, With, and Under Scripture and its Reading; Chapter 6 Implications of the Triangle Typology: A Modest Proposal for A Divine-Rhetorical Hermeneutics;
Biography
Mark Alan Bowald is Assistant Professor of Religion and Theology at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada.
’This is a brave book that has an unashamed agenda and should be engaged as such... There can be no doubt, however, that this is a valuable volume that will spark further debate in the field of theological hermeneutics.’ Theological Book Review ’...yields new insights into theologians whose work is well known’ Expository Times
