The Bible In Modern Culture

Author : Roy A. Harrisville
Publisher : Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802808738
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible in Modern Culture written by Roy A. Harrisville and published by Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two prominent biblical scholars place the traditional historical-critical method of biblical study in perspective by examining the work of its principal proponents and critics. They review the impact--often detrimental--that this approach has had on the spiritual life of the church and suggest ways to revise and supplement the method.

Author : Philip Culbertson
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1589834941
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bible in/and Popular Culture written by Philip Culbertson and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In popular culture, the Bible is generally associated with films: The Passion of the Christ, The Ten Commandments, Jesus of Montreal, and many others. Less attention has been given to the relationship between the Bible and other popular media such as hip-hop, reggae, rock, and country and western music; popular and graphic novels; animated television series; and apocalyptic fantasy. This collection of essays explores a range of media and the way the Bible features in them, applying various hermeneutical approaches, engaging with critical theory, and providing conceptual resources and examples of how the Bible reads popular culture—and how popular culture reads the Bible. This useful resource will be of interest for both biblical and cultural studies. The contributors are Elaine M. Wainwright, Michael Gilmour, Mark McEntire, Dan W. Clanton Jr., Philip Culbertson, Jim Perkinson, Noel Leo Erskine, Tex Sample, Roland Boer, Terry Ray Clark, Steve Taylor, Tina Pippin, Laura Copier, Jaap Kooijman, Caroline Vander Stichele, and Erin Runions.

Author : Mark Roncace
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589836758
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching the Bible through Popular Culture and the Arts written by Mark Roncace and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource enables biblical studies instructors to facilitate engaging classroom experiences by drawing on the arts and popular culture. It offers brief overviews of hundreds of easily accessible examples of art, film, literature, music, and other media and outlines strategies for incorporating them effectively and concisely in the classroom. Although designed primarily for college and seminary courses on the Bible, the ideas can easily be adapted for classes such as “Theology and Literature” or “Religion and Art” as well as for nonacademic settings. This compilation is an invaluable resource for anyone who teaches the Bible.

Author : George Aichele
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300068184
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postmodern Bible written by George Aichele and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led to stimulating--but often bewildering--new readings of the Bible. This book, argued from a perspective shaped by postmodernism, is at once an accessible guide to and an engagement with various methods, theories, and critical practices transforming biblical scholarship today. Written by a collective of cutting-edge scholars--with each page the work of multiple hands--The Postmodern Bible deliberately breaks with the individualist model of authorship that has traditionally dominated scholarship in the humanities and is itself an illustration of the postmodern transformation of biblical studies for which it argues. The book introduces, illustrates, and critiques seven prominent strategies of reading. Several of these interpretive strategies--rhetorical criticism, structuralism and narratology, reader-response criticism, and feminist criticism--have been instrumental in the transformation of biblical studies up to now. Many--feminist and womanist criticism, ideological criticism, poststructuralism, and psychoanalytic criticism--hold promise for the continued transformation of these studies in the future. Focusing on readings from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, this volume illuminates the current multidisciplinary debates emerging from postmodernism by exposing the still highly contested epistemological, political, and ethical positions in the field of biblical studies.

Author : Naomi Tadmor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176971X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Universe of the English Bible written by Naomi Tadmor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the shaping of the English Bible and its impact on early modern English society and culture.

Author : R . Harrisville (Sundberg, W)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible In Modern Culture written by R . Harrisville (Sundberg, W) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Ann Beavis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498232205
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Does the Bible Say? written by Mary Ann Beavis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collaboration between a biblical scholar (Mary Ann Beavis) and a practical theologian (HyeRan Kim-Cragg) who are concerned with the way that the Bible is portrayed and interpreted in popular culture, including but not limited to the movies. This concern points to a need for a conversation, examining what the Bible actually says, in order to uncover transformations and distortions of the biblical stories in the wider culture--including Christian culture. Our conversation is counter-cultural, not in an oppositional way, but taking an alternative posture that aims to provide different insights by drawing from and closely looking at the Bible. The chapters take a Christian canonical approach, articulating "what the Bible says" (and doesn't say) with regard to culturally pervasive themes such as sin and salvation, Christ and Antichrist, heaven and hell, in contrast to popular understandings as disseminated in (primarily) film, advertising, television, etc. We hope that together we will open up fertile academic, ecclesial, and secular space for disclosing loaded cultural and ideological views towards offering positive and intriguing insights embedded in the Bible.

Author : Paul Boyer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674252659
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Time Shall Be No More written by Paul Boyer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in finding their place in God’s prophetic plan for mankind. And yet, influential as this phenomenon is in the worldview of so many, the belief in biblical prophecy remains a popular mystery, largely unstudied and little understood. When Time Shall Be No More offers for the first time an in-depth look at the subtle, pervasive ways in which prophecy belief shapes contemporary American thought and culture. Belief in prophecy dates back to antiquity, and there Paul Boyer begins, seeking out the origins of this particular brand of faith in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings, then tracing its development over time. Against this broad historical overview, the effect of prophecy belief on the events and themes of recent decades emerges in clear and striking detail. Nuclear war, the Soviet Union, Israel and the Middle East, the destiny of the United States, the rise of a computerized global economic order—Boyer shows how impressive feats of exegesis have incorporated all of these in the popular imagination in terms of the Bible’s apocalyptic works. Reflecting finally on the tenacity of prophecy belief in our supposedly secular age, Boyer considers the direction such popular conviction might take—and the forms it might assume—in the post–Cold War era. The product of a four-year immersion in the literature and culture of prophecy belief, When Time Shall Be No More serves as a pathbreaking guide to this vast terra incognita of contemporary American popular thought—a thorough and thoroughly fascinating index to its sources, its implications, and its enduring appeal.

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781563381683
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth and Authority in Modernity written by Lesslie Newbigin and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant and tightly reasoned volume, well-known author Lesslie Newbigin analyzes the sources of truth and authority in the modern world. He acknowledges that modern society treats all claims to authority with suspicion. With what authority, then, can and does the Christian church present the gospel to modern society? Bible, tradition, reason, and experience are all used in answering this question, and this book seeks to examine their proper use and their relations to each other.

Author : Roy A. Harrisville
Publisher : Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802839923
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible in Modern Culture written by Roy A. Harrisville and published by Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical-critical method in biblical scholarship has been a Pandora's box for the intellectual life of the church. No achievement of modern scholarship has been more effective in understanding the Bible, yet it has also seriously challenged a church trying to preserve the integrity of its cherished theological traditions. In this critically acclaimed book Roy Harrisville and Walter Sundberg trace the development and drama of historical-critical method by surveying the major figures who created and employed it -- from Baruch Spinoza in the seventeenth century to present-day interpreters. This expanded second edition of "The Bible in Modern Culture includes three new chapters detailing the work of Adolf Schlatter, Paul Ricoeur, and Brevard Childs.