The Art of Reading Scripture

Ellen F. Davis

ISBN 10: 0802812694 / ISBN 13: 9780802812698

Published by Eerdmans, 2003

About this Item

Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!

Seller Inventory # OTF-Y-9780802812698

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Art of Reading Scripture
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802812694
• ISBN 13: 9780802812698
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • 0
  • VCF

About this title

Synopsis

The difficulty of interpreting the Bible is felt all over today. Is the Bible still authoritative for the faith and practice of the church? If so, in what way? What practices of reading offer the most appropriate approach to understanding Scripture? The church's lack of clarity about these issues has hindered its witness and mission, causing it to speak with an uncertain voice to the challenges of our time. This important book is for a twenty-first-century church that seems to have lost the art of reading the Bible attentively and imaginatively. The Art of Reading Scripture is written by a group of eminent scholars and teachers seeking to recover the church's rich heritage of biblical interpretation in a dramatically changed cultural environment. Asking how best to read the Bible in a postmodern context, the contributors together affirm up front "Nine Theses" that provide substantial guidance for the church. The essays and sermons that follow both amplify and model the approach to Scripture outlined in the Nine Theses. Lucidly conceived, carefully written, and shimmering with fresh insights, The Art of Reading Scripture proposes a far-reaching revolution in how the Bible is taught in theological seminaries and calls pastors and teachers in the church to rethink their practices of using the Bible.

About the Author

Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible andPractical Theology at Duke University Divinity School,Durham, North Carolina.