- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A crucial responsibility for Christian interpreters of Scripture, says Richard Bauckham, is to understand our contemporary context and to explore the Bible’s relevance to it in ways that reflect serious critical engagement with that context. In this book Bauckham models how this task can be carried out.
Bauckham calls for our reading of Scripture to lead us to greater engagement with critical issues in today’s world, including globalization, environmental degradation, and widespread poverty. He works to bring biblical texts to bear on these contemporary realities through the Bible’s metanarrative of God and the world, according to which God’s purpose takes effect in the blessing and salvation and fulfillment of the world as his cherished creation.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Reading Scripture as a Coherent Story
- 2. Are We Still Missing the Elephant? C. S. Lewis’s “Fernseed and Elephants” Half a Century On
- 3. Contemporary Western Culture — A Biblical--Christian Critique
- 4. The Bible and Globalization
- 5. Freedom and Belonging
- 6. Humans, Animals, and the Environment in Genesis 1–3
- 7. The Story of the Earth according to Paul
- 8. Ecological Hope in Crisis?
- 9. Creation — Divine and Human: An Old Testament Theological Perspective
- 10. God’s Embrace of Suffering
- 11. The Christian Way as Losing and Finding Self
- 12. The Fulfillment of Messianic Prophecy
- 13. Where Is Wisdom to Be Found? Christ and Wisdom in Colossians
- 14. What Is Truth?
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Scripture References