Models for Scripture

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Clements Publishing Group, 2004 - Religion - 420 pages
This work looks at the task of interpreting Scripture as "witnessing tradition," "authoritative canon," "inspired word," and "experienced revelation." The diversity of interpretive approaches implied by the use of these four models of Scripture is carried further by a methodological catholicity and openness within each of the four major divisions of the book. Throughout, Goldingay also continually moves toward the interpreter's final task- communication to others of what has been gained in interpretation.
 

Contents

Scriptures Varied Forms
1
Witness and Tradition
25
As Witness Scripture Invites Us to Learn from the Events
46
Witness in the Form of Story
61
The Place of Fiction in a Historical Story
67
Scripture as a Whole as Witnessing Tradition
77
Authority in Scripture
85
The Development of a Canon of Jewish Scriptures
138
Understanding the Inspiration of a Text
237
Scripture as a Whole as Inspired Word
252
Inspiration and Inerrancy
261
Revelation in Theology and in Scripture
287
Personal Propositional Historical
299
The Truth of Revelation
314
Scripture as as a Whole as Divine Revelation
329
Human Experience and Theological Reflection
348

The Development of a Second Testament
151
The Bounds of the Canon
168
Scripture as Resource and Norm
183
The Words of God in Human Words
201
An Effective and Meaningful Word
209
Forms of Inspiration
222
Scripture as a Manual of Theological Reflection
360
Abbreviations
372
Index of Authors
404
Index of Scriptural and Other Ancient Jewish
412
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