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This major contribution to the study of the Bible shows that interpretation of the New Testament as religious literature is vital to understanding the authentic nature of the texts.
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THE TEXT of TEXTS!,
This review is from: The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture (Michael Glazier Books) (Paperback)
It is so good to see The Revelatory Text back in print! It is one of the most important primary reference tools for the study of scripture available. The writing style is rich in language and challenging in the application of exegetical principles. Schnieders also provides the standard by which most theology schools and seminaries structure their understanding of sacred scripture within a historical context. Her language has now become the common form of expression in theological conversations today. The only difference between this re-printed version of The Revelatory Text and Schnieders' first edition is the second preface. Since Schneiders wrote a classic the first time, she now only needs to comment briefly on it.
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4 stars for effort...,
By Jarrod Ryder (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture (Michael Glazier Books) (Paperback)
Sandra Schneiders has in this work provided students and theologians alike with an invaluable resource on hermeneutical study, and post-modern Biblical scholarship. Her attempt to work with the text from an existentialist experience is refreshing considering the complete secularisation of Scripture by other authors. However, when engaging her example hermeneutic of suspiscion, I asked myself, "Is this Christian existentialism or is it Feminist existentialism." Once again, infant Christianity appears as the butt of a scholastic enterprise that projects current ideology onto ancient text, and what makes this all the more difficult is that it involves at times imaginative reconstruction. Despite its reflection of popular white middle class ethic, this book is a handy resource, if only for its dealings with 'scientific methodology', and Schneiders' immense notions of spirituality refreshingly engage Sacred text, filling a vacuum in modern academic theology.
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Wish I'd read this years ago!,
By Leon Seaman (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture (Michael Glazier Books) (Paperback)
This is the kind of book that articulates ideas that you had been dimly aware of, but hadn't quite put into your own words. I only wish I'd been introduced to this book in my own graduate classes.Schneiders has helpfully digested and synthesized a lot of hermeneutical theory, and presents it accessibly. In so doing she has provided a working vocabulary and guide for people who want to read and share scripture for meaning and transformation while avoiding the dangers and pitfalls of precritical naivety. I thoroughly recommend this book for all students of scripture, academic, clergy, or lay. It is an invaluable aid to interpreting ancient, sacred texts meaningfully in the twenty-first century world.
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This book is about the relationship between the New Testament and its readers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
paschal imagination, world before the text, biblical academy, effective historical consciousness, revelatory text, symbolic revelation, explanatory phase, world behind the text, literalized metaphor, ideal meaning, integral interpretation, ideology criticism, audience criticism, semantic autonomy, historical critical exegesis, hermeneutical theory, interpretive project, objective pole, faith affirmation, human text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Testament, New York, Old Testament, Paul Ricoeur, Jesus of Nazareth, Samaritan Woman, Roman Catholic, Holy Spirit, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Jesus the Christ, New Israel, Son of God, Unfinished Man, Amos Wilder, Christian Bible, Mary Ann Tolbert, Norman Perrin, Rudolf Bultmann, Second Vatican Council, Beloved Disciple, David Tracy, Metaphorical Theology, United States, Declaration of Independence, Good Samaritan New!
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This book is about the relationship between the New Testament and its readers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
paschal imagination, world before the text, biblical academy, effective historical consciousness, revelatory text, symbolic revelation, explanatory phase, world behind the text, literalized metaphor, ideal meaning, integral interpretation, ideology criticism, audience criticism, semantic autonomy, historical critical exegesis, hermeneutical theory, interpretive project, objective pole, faith affirmation, human text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Testament, New York, Old Testament, Paul Ricoeur, Jesus of Nazareth, Samaritan Woman, Roman Catholic, Holy Spirit, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Jesus the Christ, New Israel, Son of God, Unfinished Man, Amos Wilder, Christian Bible, Mary Ann Tolbert, Norman Perrin, Rudolf Bultmann, Second Vatican Council, Beloved Disciple, David Tracy, Metaphorical Theology, United States, Declaration of Independence, Good Samaritan New!
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- Truth and Method (Continuum Impacts) by Hans-Georg Gadamer on 4 pages
- Unfinished Man and the Imagination: Toward an Ontology and a Rhetoric of Revelation by Ray L. Hart on 4 pages
- Early Christian Rhetoric: The Language of the Gospel by Amos Niven Wilder in Front Matter, page 63, and page 131
- Jesus: A New Vision: Spirit, Culture, and the Life of Discipleship by Marcus J. Borg in Front Matter, and page 128
- Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation by Paul Ricoeur in Front Matter, and page 26
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- Writing Theology Well: A Rhetoric for Theological and Biblical Writers by Lucretia Yaghjian on 4 pages
- What Are They Saying About Scripture and Ethics? (Fully Revised and Expanded Edition) by William Spohn in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Freeing Theology: The Essentials of Theology in Feminist Perspective by Catherine M. Lacugna on page 29, page 112, and page 232
- Original Sin: Origins, Developments, Contemporary Meanings by Tatha Wiley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Teaching the Bible: The Discourses and Politics of Biblical Pedagogy by Fernando F. Segovia on page 100, page 185, and page 350
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