History and Hermeneutics
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567080929
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 12/06/2006
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
An incisive examination of the relation between historiography and hermeneutics over the past three hundred years of western thought. Murray Rae argues that the practice of contemporary biblical hermeneutics has been radically impaired by a widespread allegiance to a series of problematic assumptions about history. He offers a theological account of what history is, centred on the categories of creation and divine promise, and proposes that it is within this theological conception of history that the "Bible" may be understood on its own terms. "History and Hermeneutics" is both critical and constructive, identifying the crucial problems and proposing a way forward. The ecclesial reading of Scripture and the value of tradition are rehabilitated, and an account is given of how we may properly ask the question, 'What really happened?'
1. History and History Writing; 2. Creation and Promise; 3. Resurrection - The Centre and End of History; 4. Seeing What Really Happened; 5. Hearing What Really Happened; 6. The Ecclesial Reading of Scripture; 7. Re-Reading the Text.
"'Offers an informed theological vision of the way through a maze of critical hermeneutical issues... an extremely useful text.' Alan Torrance, University of St Andrew's"