The Bible in the contemporary world : hermeneutical ventures /

A crucial responsibility for Christian interpreters of Scripture today, Richard Bauckham insists, is to seek 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 The Bible in the Contemporary Wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bauckham, Richard (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015.
Subjects:	Bible > Hermeneutics. Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Church and the world > Biblical teaching. Church and social problems > Biblical teaching. Bible. Hermeneutics. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Reading Scripture as a coherent story
Are we still missing the elephant? C. S. Lewis's fernseed and elephants : half a century on
Contemporary Western culture : a biblical-Christian critique
The Bible and globalization
Freedom and belonging
Humans, animals, and the environment in genesis 1-3
The story of the earth according to Paul
Ecological hope in crisis?
Creation, divine and human : an Old Testament theological perspective
God's embrace of suffering
The Christian way as losing and finding self
The fulfillment of messianic prophecy
Where is wisdom to be found? Christ and wisdom in Colossians
What is truth?