The Bible in the contemporary world : hermeneutical ventures

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Label

The Bible in the contemporary world : hermeneutical ventures

Title remainder

hermeneutical ventures

Statement of responsibility

Richard Bauckham

Creator

• Bauckham, Richard

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Bible -- Hermeneutics
• Church and social problems -- Biblical teaching
• Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• Church and the world -- Biblical teaching

Language

eng

Summary

A crucial responsibility for Christian interpreters of Scripture, says Richard Bauckham, is to understand our contemporary context and to explore the Bible's relevance to it in ways that reflect serious critical engagement with that context. In this book Bauckham models how this task can be carried out. Bauckham calls for our reading of Scripture to lead us to greater engagement with critical issues in today's world, including globalization, environmental degradation, and widespread poverty. He works to bring biblical texts to bear on these contemporary realities through the Bible's metanarrative of God and the world, according to which God's purpose takes effect in the blessing and salvation and fulfillment of the world as his cherished creation

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

220.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult