Showing posts with label Figuration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Figuration. Show all posts
Saturday, 10 October 2009

A multiple level reading of Scripture

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I've been posting on the issue of "figural reading" of the Old Testament recently, in particular on the way in which Jesus rel...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2009

The challenge of figurative interpretation: an example

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Before I touch on this, I'd like to refer to the comment section of my last post on The "horizontal" and "vertical" ...
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Thursday, 25 June 2009

More words of wisdom for Biblical exegetes

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... though of a different sort. Provided via Tim Furry . This is explicated somewhat here . I must remember that name ... John David Dawson ...
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Monday, 30 March 2009

Jonah and the nations: a "figurative" reading

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What is the correct context for interpreting the Book of Jonah, the context that gets us to the substance of its witness? The classic histo...
Thursday, 26 March 2009

Prophetic intertextuality

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In my post Biblical figuration as literary technique I pointed out that Biblical figuration is, well, a literary technique. The next questio...
Saturday, 21 March 2009

Biblical 'figuration' as literary technique

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According to Seitz , the Biblical text bears “witness to a process of tradition-building” (72) in which a particular conceptuality concernin...
Friday, 6 March 2009

What exegetes can learn from Origen

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In contrast to what most people seem to think, the most fundamental category for Brevard Childs' Canonical Approach to Scripture was not...
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Monday, 13 October 2008

How could Augustine do that?

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I've often wondered at the validity of Augustine's hermeneutical axiom that if a passage can be variously interpreted, the interpre...
Saturday, 11 October 2008

Jesus in the Old Testament?

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I've been posting recently on Christian appropriation of the Old Testament and the question of whether it is possible for Christians, g...
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Saturday, 4 October 2008

Whence a rule for meaning?

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Where there is no critical interpretation of Scripture, there will be a mystical or rhetorical one. If words have more than one meaning, the...
Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Allegory and the problem of "history"

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Tim of The Moving Image has posted the final part of his paper on the challenge of the modern concept of "history" to theological...
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Bibliography for the figural reading of scripture

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This is Christopher Seitz's recommended reading, printed on p. ix of his outstanding book, Figured Out: Typology and Providence in Chris...
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Sunday, 6 April 2008

Israel and the Divided Church

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In 1998 Ephraim Radner published The End of the Church : A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West (Eerdmans). I haven't read th...
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Thursday, 24 January 2008

Figural Interpretation and Temporal Succession

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Following on from my Barth quote concerning the "unity of the manifold," another beautiful quote on the complex yet powerfully re...
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Monday, 21 January 2008

The Relationship between Exegesis and Dogma: Childs' View

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There's a bit of discussion going on at the moment in the blogosphere concerning the relationship between exegesis and dogma. I've a...
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Sunday, 6 January 2008

'Figuring' oneself into the History of Mankind

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Christopher Seitz is interested in how the Church can recover the instincts of figural reading in our own day. He says, "The loss of f...
Friday, 4 January 2008

Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity

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Daniel Driver links to a fascinating-looking book, Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity . Here's my favourite citat...
Saturday, 20 October 2007

Ancient Typology in Genesis 22?

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As is known (in certain quarters at least), B. S. Childs wanted to develop a 'biblical theology' of the entire Bible grounded in a c...
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