Text and Psyche: Experiencing Scripture Today - Hardcover

Brown, Schuyler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826411118 ISBN 13: 9780826411112

Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Traditional doctrinal and historical interpretation both rely heavily on rational analysis. But from the disciples at Emmaus to the beginnings of the present century, it has been the impact of scripture upon the human heart that has changed human lives. In recent decades, this impact has been strengthened by advances in linguistic and literary theory, by such disparate influences as feminism, structuralism, Jungianism, deconstructionism, the analysis of archaic imagery and myth, the recovery of Gnostic texts, and finally an openness to pluralism, whether ethnic, geographic, religious, or interpretive.
All of these factors are treated here with a brevity and a comprehensiveness which convincingly show that the reader of scripture has a creative and not merely a passive role; that texts are not simply storehouses of knowledge but rather "a vineyard" (Hugh of Saint Victor) to be tilled for the reader's nurture and pleasure.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Schuyler Brown is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at the University of Saint Michael's College, Toronto.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826411118
• ISBN 13: 9780826411112
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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