Revelation, Scripture and Church: Theological Hermeneutic Thought of James Barr, Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei
How
does God's involvement with the generation of Holy Scripture and its
use in the life of the Christian church figure into the human work of
Scripture interpretation? This is the central question that this book
seeks to address. In critical conversation with the influential
hermeneutic programs of James Barr, Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei, Topping
demonstrates how God's agency has been marginalized in the task of
Scripture interpretation. Divine involvement with the Bible is bracketed
out (Barr), rendered in generic terms (Ricoeur) or left implicit (Frei)
in these depictions of the hermeneutic field. The result is that each
of these hermeneutic programs is ess than a 'realist' interpretative
proposal.
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