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Book SynopsisThis collection assembles essays by eleven leading Catholic and evangelical theologians in an ecumenical discussion of the benefits and potential drawbacks of today's burgeoning corpus of theological interpretation. The authors explore the critical relationship between the earthly world and its heavenly counterpart.
- Ground-breaking volume of ecumenical debate featuring Catholic and evangelical theologians
- Explores the core theological issue of how the material and spiritual worlds interrelate
- Features a diversity of analytical approaches
- Addresses an urgent need to distinguish the positive and problematic aspects of today's rapidly growing corpus of theological interpretation
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Spiritual Interpretation and Realigned Temporality 1
HANS BOERSMA and MATTHEW LEVERING
Part I—Reading the Fathers 11
1 “In Many and Various Ways”: Towards A Theology of Theological Exegesis 13
BRIAN E. DALEY, SJ
2 “There’s Fire in That Rain”: On Reading the Letter and Reading Allegorically 33
LEWIS AYRES
3 Origen against History? Reconsidering the Critique of Allegory 53
PETER W. MARTENS
4 “This Is the Day Which the Lord Has Made”: Scripture, Manumission, and the Heavenly Future in Saint Gregory of Nyssa 75
HANS BOERSMA
Part II—Reading Scripture 91
5 Imperial Lover: The Unveiling of Jesus Christ in Revelation 93
PETER J. LEITHART
6 Translation and Transcendence: The Fragile Future of Spiritual Interpretation 109
DAVID LYLE JEFFREY
7 Readings on the Rock: Typological Exegesis in Contemporary Scholarship 129
MATTHEW LEVERING
Part III—Reading in Contemporary Context 155
8 The Self-Critique of the Historical-Critical Method: Cardinal Ratzinger’s Erasmus Lecture 157
MICHAEL MARIA WALDSTEIN
9 Profi ling Christ: The Psalms of Abandonment 173
FRANCESCA A. MURPHY
10 Reading the Book of the Church: Bonhoeffer’s Christological Hermeneutics 189
JENS ZIMMERMANN
11 “Ascending the Mountain, Singing the Rock: Biblical Interpretation Earthed, Typed, and Transfigured” 207
KEVIN J. VANHOOZER
Index 231
