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from: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company See Larger Image List Price: $32.00 Our Price: $21.12 You Save: $10.88 (34%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $17.10 Third Party New Price: $20.92 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 220.601 EAN: 9780802812698 ISBN: 0802812694 Label: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2003-10 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Sales Rank: 67331 Studio: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Related Items: Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel Old Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors(3rd Edition) Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church see more Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Better than expected From the cover of this book I was really dreading reading it. The collection of essays has turned out to be really quite good. Very unexpected. Rating: - breath of fresh air, excellent theological scholarship! In an intellectual climate where to be a "Bible scholar" often means to stand in suspicion of the texts under investigation, it is a rare occasion when scholars "come out of the closet" and confess their stance as disciples of Jesus Christ. Postmodernism, feminism, and postcolonial theory are all very important perspectives with which to reveal the ways in which biblical narratives, like any "sacred" texts, can be abused by people seeking power over others. However, when this revealing is the endpoint ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Amazon Upgrade - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - All Amazon Upgrade Amazon Upgrade - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies - Humanities - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Qualifying Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS