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This collection assembles essays by eleven leading Catholic and evangelical theologians in an ecumenical discussion of the benefits – and potential drawbacks – of today’s burgeoning corpus of theological interpretation. The authors explore the critical relationship between the earthly world and its heavenly counterpart.
- Ground-breaking volume of ecumenical debate featuring Catholic and evangelical theologians
- Explores the core theological issue of how the material and spiritual worlds interrelate
- Features a diversity of analytical approaches
- Addresses an urgent need to distinguish the positive and problematic aspects of today’s rapidly growing corpus of theological interpretation
Content: Chapter 1 “In Many and Various Ways”: Towards A Theology of Theological Exegesis (pages 11–31): Brian E. Daley Chapter 2 “There's Fire in That Rain”: On Reading the Letter and Reading Allegorically (pages 33–51): Lewis Ayres Chapter 3 Origen against History? Reconsidering the Critique of Allegory (pages 53–74): Peter W. Martens Chapter 4 “This Is the Day Which the Lord Has Made”: Scripture, Manumission, and the Heavenly Future in Saint Gregory of Nyssa (pages 75–90): Hans Boersma Chapter 5 Imperial Lover: The Unveiling of Jesus Christ in Revelation (pages 91–107): Peter J. Leithart Chapter 6 Translation and Transcendence: The Fragile Future of Spiritual Interpretation (pages 109–127): David Lyle Jeffrey Chapter 7 Readings on the Rock: Typological Exegesis in Contemporary Scholarship (pages 129–153): Matthew Levering Chapter 8 The Self?Critique of the Historical?Critical Method: Cardinal Ratzinger's Erasmus Lecture (pages 155–172): Michael Maria Waldstein Chapter 9 Profiling Christ: The Psalms of Abandonment (pages 173–187): Francesca A. Murphy Chapter 10 Reading the Book of the Church: Bonhoeffer's Christological Hermeneutics (pages 189–206): Jens Zimmermann Chapter 11 “Ascending the Mountain, Singing the Rock: Biblical Interpretation Earthed, Typed, and Transfigured” (pages 207–229): Kevin J. Vanhoozer
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Heaven on Earth?
Directions in Modern Theology Book Series Born out of the journal Modern Theology, the Directions in Modern Theology book series provides issues focused on important theological topics and texts in current debate within that discipline, whilst looking at broader contemporary topics from a theological perspective. It analyses notions and thinkers, as well as examining a wide spectrum of “modern” theological eras: from late Medieval through to the Enlightenment and up until the present “post-modern” movements. Attracting distinguished theologians from a world-wide base, the book series develops what is a unique forum for international debate on theological concerns. Titles in the series include: Heaven on Earth? Theological Interpretation in Ecumenical Dialogue Edited by Hans Boersma and Matthew Levering Faith, Rationality and the Passions Edited by Sarah Coakley Re-thinking Dionysius the Areopagite Edited by Sarah Coakley and Charles M. Stang The Promise of Scriptural Reasoning Edited by David Ford and C. C. Pecknold Aquinas in Dialogue: Thomas for the Twenty-First Century Edited by Jim Fodor and Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa Edited by Sarah Coakley Theology and Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium Edited by L. Gregory Jones and James Buckley Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Edited by Sarah Beckwith, L. Gregory Jones and James J. Buckley Theology and Scriptural Imagination: Directions in Modern Theology Edited by L. Gregory Jones and James Buckley Spirituality and Social Embodiment Edited by L. Gregory Jones and James Buckley
Heaven on Earth? Theological Interpretation in Ecumenical Dialogue
Edited by Hans Boer