Reading the New Testament

Patrick Grant

ISBN 10: 0333436180 / ISBN 13: 9780333436189

Published by Macmillan Press, London England, 1989

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Hardback. Excellent condition. This approach to the New Testament's depiction of faith is partly prompted by reapproachement between recent literary criticism and Biblical scholarship. Modern developments in literary theory have raised radical questions about hermeneutics and imagination in such a manner that a literary approach to the sacred texts is both fruitful and of timely interest. 161 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading the New Testament
• Publisher: Macmillan Press, London England
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333436180
• ISBN 13: 9780333436189
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Patrick Grant shows how the New Testament presents problems of religious faith imaginatively, so bringing home to us the full challenge of faith. He notes that however much enriched by narrative and symbol, myth and image, the New Testament in the final analysis is intolerant of the fictive imagination, and asks us to believe that the crucified Jesus is God. The way in which we are led through the literature to the extra-literary is examined in chapters on each of the four Gospels, the first and second letter to the Corinthians, the letter to the Hebrews and in Revelation. This approach to the New Testament's depiction of faith is partly prompted by rapprochement between literary criticism and biblical scholarship. Grant also argues that the literary approach to the sacred texts is fruitful. Patrick Grant is author of "The Transformation of Studies in Donne, Herbert, Vaughan and Traherne", "Images and Ideas in Literature of the English Renaissance", "Six Modern Authors and Problems of Belief", "Literature of Mysticism in Western Tradition" and "Literature and the Discovery of Method in the English Renaissance".