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001 2014466381
003 DLC
005 20150128084327.0
008 150127t20142014oruc b 001 0 eng d
010 $a 2014466381
020 $a1620327244 (paperback)
020 $a9781620327241 (paperback)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn889524891
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042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aBS500$b.B565 2014
082 04 $a220.609$223
100 1 $aBlack, C. Clifton$q(Carl Clifton),$d1955-$eauthor.
245 10 $aReading Scripture with the saints /$cC. Clifton Black ; foreword by Stephen E. Fowl.
264 1 $aEugene, Oregon :$bCascade Books,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $axxvi, 263 pages :$bportraits ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [217]-230) and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction. 1. Welcome -- Patristic Stirrings. 2. Trinity and exegesis : in which trinitarian doctrine frames a reading of Ecclesiastes -- 3. Serving the food of full-grown adults : Augustine preaches First John in the fifth and twenty-first centuries -- 4. Listen : Benedict rules today's biblical exposition -- Middle Ages. 5. Transfigured exegesis : twenty centuries of interpreters teetering on Mount Tabor -- 6. Doubtless Thomas : in which Aquinas probes the fourth gospel's prologue -- 7. Luther times three : "Have mercy on me, O God," Martin cries across two decades -- Some Early Moderns. 8. "Not of an age, but for all time" : King James's Job suffers with Shakespeare's Lear -- 9. Searcher of the oracles divine : accompanying Charles Wesley on two breathtaking journeys from Jerusalem to Jericho -- 10. American scriptures : Washington and Lincoln : biblical exegetes -- Conclusion. 11. Until later -- Appendices. 1. Washington's farewell -- 2. Lincoln's second inaugural.
520 $a"[This book] is a small museum. On its pages hang portraits of Christianity's 'masters of the sacred page': Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo, Benedict of Nursia, Maximus Confessor, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, and Charles Wesley. Other, surprising figures also appear: Shakespeare, Washington, and Lincoln. How did these great thinkers interpret Scripture? What might their diverse approaches teach today's readers of the Old and New Testaments? What's missing in contemporary biblical interpretation that an awareness of the history of exegesis might complete? Join Clifton Black as he traverses the Bible, church history, systematic theology, Elizabethan drama, and American politics: retrieving premodern insights for a postmodern world, Reading Scripture with the Saints"--From the publisher.
630 00 $aBible$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.$xHistory.