Reception Theory And Biblical Hermeneutics

Author : David Paul Parris
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556356536
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reception Theory and Biblical Hermeneutics written by David Paul Parris and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional methods employed in biblical interpretation involve a two-way dialogue between the text and the reader. Reception theory expands this into a three-way dialogue, with the third partner being the history of the text's interpretation and application. Most contemporary biblical interpreters have ignored this third partner, although recently the need to include the history of interpretation has gained some attention. This book explores the hermeneutical resources that reception theory provides for engaging the history of biblical interpretation as a third dialogue partner in biblical hermeneutics. The first third of this work explores the philosophical background and hermeneutical framework that Hans-Georg Gadamer provides for reception theory. The center of this study examines how this hermeneutical approach is fleshed out by Hans Robert Jauss. Jauss not only builds upon Gadamer's work, but his literary hermeneutic provides a model applicable to the biblical text and its tradition of interpretation. The focus for the final third of the book shifts toward three studies that seek to demonstrate the applicability of various aspects of reception theory to biblical interpretation.

Author : Robert Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567655423
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reception History, Tradition and Biblical Interpretation written by Robert Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to make a contribution to current debates about the nature of Wirkungsgeschichte or reception history and its place in contemporary Biblical Studies. The author addresses three crucial questions: the relationship between reception history and historical-critical exegesis; the form of reception history itself, with a focus on the issue of which acts of reception are selected and valorized; and the role of tradition, pre-judgements and theology in relation to reception history. Disagreements about these matters contribute to what many characterise as the fragmentation of the discipline of biblical studies. The study champions the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer as a theoretical resource for understanding biblical interpretation, and a way of holding together with integrity the varied activities undertaken within the discipline. Each aspect of the argument is illustrated, tested and further explored with reference to the post-history of exhortations in the New Testament to 'be subject'. These have been widely cited and applied for 2,000 years – in literature, law and politics as well as in theological traditions. In this way the study makes a contribution not just to the theory but also the practice of reception history.

Author : Víctor Manuel Morales Vásquez
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 389971895X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contours of a Biblical Reception Theory written by Víctor Manuel Morales Vásquez and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chester/University of Liverpool, 2007.

Author : Emma England
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567660095
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reception History and Biblical Studies written by Emma England and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we begin to carry out such a vast task-the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which these have happened? Through a series of examples of reception history practitioners at work and of their reflections this volume sets the agenda for biblical reception, as it begins to chart the near-infinite series of complex interpretive 'events' that have been generated by the journey of the biblical texts down through the centuries. The chapters consider aspects as diverse as political and economic factors, cultural location, the discipline of Biblical Studies, and the impact of scholarly preconceptions, upon reception history. Topics covered include biblical figures and concepts, contemporary music, paintings, children's Bibles, and interpreters as diverse as Calvin, Lenin, and Nick Cave.

Author : Stephen J. Chester
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467447889
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Paul with the Reformers written by Stephen J. Chester and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In debates surrounding the New Perspective on Paul, the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers are often characterized as the apostle’s misinterpreters-in-chief. In this book Stephen Chester challenges that conception with a careful and nuanced reading of the Reformers’ Pauline exegesis. Examining the overall contours of Reformation exegesis of Paul, Chester contrasts the Reformers with their opponents and explores particular contributions made by such key figures as Luther, Melanchthon, and Calvin. He relates their insights to contemporary debates in Pauline theology about justification, union with Christ, and other central themes, arguing that their work remains a significant resource today. Published in the 500th anniversary year of the Protestant Reformation, Chester’s Reading Paul with the Reformers reclaims a robust understanding of how the Reformers actually read the apostle Paul.

Author : Brennan W. Breed
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253012627
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nomadic Text written by Brennan W. Breed and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brennan W. Breed claims that biblical interpretation should focus on the shifting capacities of the text, viewing it as a dynamic process rather than a static product. Rather than seeking to determine the original text and its meaning, Breed proposes that scholars approach the production, transmission, and interpretation of the biblical text as interwoven elements of its overarching reception history. Grounded in the insights of contemporary literary theory, this approach alters the framing questions of interpretation from "What does this text mean?" to "What can this text do?"

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567709914
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible written by Stanley E. Porter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents Stanley E. Porter's considered thoughts and reflections on key questions of meaning and context, addressing the problems of biblical interpretation and how a close collaboration between hermeneutics and linguistics can help to solve them. The chapters display Porter's work in both fields, examining how hermeneutics functions as a field in modern biblical studies, and how the quest for meaning in biblical texts is underpinned by the study of linguistics. The volume focuses on context for understanding the meanings of biblical texts. Porter suggests that linguists can learn more from the philosophical questions around meaning that hermeneutics apply in their study of biblical texts, and that there is more fruitful work to be done in the field of hermeneutics using insights from linguistics.

Author : Gregory A. Ryan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004436405
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hermeneutics of Doctrine in a Learning Church written by Gregory A. Ryan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hermeneutics of Doctrine in a Learning Church, Gregory Ryan offers an account of the dynamic, multi-dimensional task of interpreting Christian tradition, with reference to doctrinal hermeneutics, Receptive Ecumenism, and the ‘pastorality of doctrine’ seen in Pope Francis.

Author : David Paul Parris
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718844343
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Bible with Giants written by David Paul Parris and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many readers of the Bible believe that interpreting the Scriptures well simply involves a two-way dialogue between themselves and the text. Implied in this view is the idea that we can simply jump over two thousand years of biblical interpretation. However, if we believe that God has been speaking through the Bible to devout believers throughout history it would seem that we should find a way to identify the insights they perceived in the text so that we can learn to read these sacred texts with them. Drawing on resources from Reception Theory, the goal of 'Reading the Bible with the Giants' is to enable the contemporary reader to interpret the Bible in dialogue with those who have gone before us.

Author : Anthony C. Thiselton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467433950
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hermeneutics written by Anthony C. Thiselton and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Thiselton here brings together his encyclopedic knowledge of hermeneutics and his nearly four decades of teaching on the subject to provide a splendid interdisciplinary textbook. After a thorough historical overview of hermeneutics, Thiselton moves into modern times with extensive analysis of scholarship from the mid-twentieth century, including liberation and feminist theologies, reader-response and reception theory, and postmodernism. No other text on hermeneutics covers the range of writers and subjects discussed in Thiselton’s Hermeneutics.