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Mercer Dictionary of the Bible
ISBN: 0865543739
ISBN-13: 9780865543737
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr
Published date: 1998
Size: 7.25 x 10 inches
Weight: 3.95 pounds
Pages: 993
Publisher's Notes
Jesus Christ in History and Scripture highlights two related bases for the current revolution in Jesus studies: (1) a critically-chastened world view that is satisfied with provisional results and (2) a creative (or "poetic") use of the sources of study of Jesus. The first part of the book shows that "precritical, " "critical, " and "postcritical" epochs and attitudes (all alive today) support different sorts of knowledge concerning Jesus (historical reconstructions; historic memory and appropriations; imaginative, poetic, and artistic creations; and theological formulations) and that the Gospels themselves support different sorts of knowledge and approaches. The Gospels were composed by Christians who combined historical information and historic memory in imaginative ways to present a Jesus who was relevant to their congregations as he was to the earliest disciples. The creative contribution that readers of the Gospels make in their reconstructions of Jesus is a recapitulation of the creative activities of the earliest evangelists. The central section of the book provides a philosophical rationale for correlating the historical-critical methods of biblical scholars and the rationalist methods of theologians and for correlating these "modern" Enlightenment modes of knowledge with feeling, lived experience, and praxis. It also traces the attempts to do justice to the historical Jesus with particular attention to the different philosophical and theological presuppositions supporting the different attempts. A final section discusses the values of non-foundationalist hermeneutical approaches for the broader questions of the use and authority of the Bible. In the end, ecumenical ratherthan divisive approaches are advocated. Different ways of doing church and different ways of discovering and creating truth demand an ecumenical approach.
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MERCER DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE
Mills, Watson E. Editor
Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.: Mercer Univ Pr, 1998. Clean text, sound binding. 993 pages, plus black & white maps. A modern, critical one-volume Bible dictionary. Additional entries as well as articles on virtually every noncanonical work included in recent standard collections. Nice copy. Contact Steels for more Biblical Reference titles. Selling Christian books since 1973.. Pb. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Biblical Reference. ( more information)
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Mercer Dictionary of the Bible
Mills, Watson E. {General Editor}
Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.: Mercer University Press, 1990. "A modern, critical....one-volume Bible dictionary....Compared with {other Bible dictionaries} buyers will find some additional entries....as well as articles on virtually every noncanonical work included in recent standard collections. Some of the articles have helpful bibliographies, occasionally longer and more up-to-date that those of {other dictionaries}." {International Review of Biblical Studies}. This book has 993 pages and is illustrated throughout + appendix of plates,. ISBN: 0-86554-373-9. Fifth Printing. Pictorial Softcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. BIBLE DICTIONARIES RELIGION REFERENCE. ( more information)
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