Denominations from evangelical to mainline continue to experience deep divisions over universal social issues. The underlying debate isn’t about a particular social issue, but instead it is about how we understand the nature of scripture and how we should interpret it. The world’s bestselling, most-read, and most-loved book is also one of the most confusing. In Making Sense of the Bible, Ad…
Introductions to reading the Bible are almost as old as the scriptures themselves, but most of the recently published introductory biblical textbooks focus exclusively on either the Old or the New Testament. In contrast, READING THE BIBLE takes the unusual approach of serving as an introduction to the Bible as a whole, helping the reader understand the Bible as a single entity. In a practical, …
Examines the important place of the Bible in the life of the Christian Church and discusses how the Bible continues to be a source of religious faith
Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder provides an engaging womanist reading of mother characters in the Old and New Testaments. After providing a brief history of womanist biblical interpretation, she shows how the stories of several biblical mothersHagar, Rizpah, Bathsheba, Mary, the Canaanite woman, and Zebedee's wifecan be powerful sources for critical reflection, identification, and empowerment. Crow…
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi texts, and new Targums has greatly increased scholarly interest in the relationship between the New Testament and first-century Judaism. This critically acclaimed study by Richard Longenecker sheds light on this relationship by exploring the methods the earliest Christians used to interpret the Old Testament. By comparing the first Christia…
Elizabeth Ann Dively Lauro discusses the theologian Origen’s employment of three distinct senses of scriptural meaning within his exegetical theory and practice: somatic (bodily, factually historical), psychic (pertaining to the soul, a figurative call to shun vice and grow in virtue), and pneumatic (spiritual, revealing God’s plan of salvation through Christ’s Incarnation). Lauro first e…
Buku ini mencoba menerangkan metode-metode yang telah dikembangkan oleh para penafsir, baik dalam gereja Kristen Protestan maupun dalam Gereja Katolik Roma. Metode kritik naas, bentuk dan analisis sastra, lisan, bidang kehidupan, peredaksian, pengaruh agama-agama, tempat dan waktu, relevansi firman hingga tujuan nas dibicarakan dalam buku ini bersama contoh-contoh yang sederhana.
The new edition of this essay collection, written by a wide spectrum of theologians, aims to reflect the advances made in the study of new sociological and political approaches to the Bible. The editors' introduction surveys and summarizes developments and current socio-political interpretations
What kind of power does scripture exercise? In The Power of the Word, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, a scholar of feminist biblical interpretation and early Christian history, explores this difficult hermeneutical question. Because Christian scriptures were formulated in the context of Roman imperial power, they have functioned-and still do so-in the service of empire, legitimating colonialist e…
Buku ini memuat berbagai ketentuan/peraturan di bidang keagamaan termasuk anggaran dasar berbagai lembaga keagamaan, tanggapan resmi atas ketentuan/peraturan dan data informasi lainnya sebagai bahan untuk turun membantu mendorong proses mewujudkan kehidupan beragama yang makin semarak di bumi Pancasila ini.