Interpreting Scripture
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Interpreting Scripture

Essays on the Bible and Hermeneutics

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eBook - ePub

Interpreting Scripture

Essays on the Bible and Hermeneutics

About this book

Interpreting Scripture brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Scripture and hermeneutics over more than two decades.Here is a rich feast for all serious students of the Bible. Each essay will amply reward those looking for detailed, incisive and exquisitely nuanced exegesis, resulting in a clearer, deeper and more informed appreciation of Scripture and its application to Christian life and thought today.

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Table of contents

  1. 1 Introduction to The Language and Imagery of the Bible by G. B. Caird
  2. 2 The Lord’s Prayer as a Paradigm of Christian Prayer
  3. 3 God and Caesar, Then and Now
  4. 4 Christian Origins and the Question of God
  5. 5 Faith, Virtue, Justification, and the Journey to Freedom
  6. 6 Neither Anarchy nor Tyranny: Government and the New Testament
  7. 7 The Bishop and Living under Scripture
  8. 8 Imagining the Kingdom: Mission and Theology in Early Christianity
  9. 9 Revelation and Christian Hope: Political Implications of the Revelation to John
  10. 10 The Monarchs and the Message: Reflections on Bible Translation from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century
  11. 11 Joy: Some New Testament Perspectives and Questions
  12. 12 Pastoral Theology for Perplexing Topics: Paul and Adiaphora
  13. 13 Apocalyptic and the Sudden Fulfilment of Divine Promise
  14. 14 The Bible and Christian Mission
  15. 15 Wouldn’t You Love to Know? Towards a Christian View of Reality
  16. 16 Sign and Means of New Creation: Public Worship and the Creative Reading of Scripture
  17. 17 The Powerful Breath of the New Creation
  18. 18 Sacred Space in the City
  19. 19 Foreword to The Church and Its Vocation: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology by Michael Goheen
  20. 20 The Honest to God Controversy
  21. 21 Christ and the Cosmos: Kingdom and Creation in Gospel Perspective
  22. 22 Get the Story Right and the Models Will Fit: Victory through Substitution in ‘Atonement Theology’
  23. Bibliography
  24. Acknowledgments
  25. Index of Ancient Sources
  26. Index of Modern Authors