After Pentecost: 02 (Scripture And Hermeneutics) - Hardcover

In this second rich and original volume from the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar, the importance of linguistic issues for biblical interpretation is analysed, the challenge of postmodernism is explored, and some of the most creative developments in philosophy and theology of language are assessed and updated for biblical interpretation. From Paternoster. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Mary Hesse Ray Van Leeuwen Anthony Thiselton Kevin Vanhoozer Nicholas Wolterstorff

Craig G. Bartholomew (Ph.D., University of Bristol) is H. Evan Runner Chair in Philosophy at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Reading Ecclesiastes: Old Testament Exegesis and Hermeneutical Theory; Ecclesiastes (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms series); Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today He is also co-author of The Drama of Scripture and Living at the Crossroads: Introduction to Christian Worldview with Michael W. Goheen. He has also edited In the Fields of the Lord: A Calvin Seerveld Reader and co-edited Christ and Consumerism: A Critical Analysis of the Spirit of the Age. He is the series editor for the Scripture and Hermeneutics Series (8 volumes). The Revd Dr Colin JD Greene (PhD., University of Nottingham) is head of theology and public policy at Bible Society and visiting professor of systematic and philosophical theology at Seattle Pacific University, USA. He is Author of Christology and Atonement in Historical Context. METAVISTA: Exploring the Bible, the Church and mission in an age of imagination and Marking Out the Horizons: Christology in Cultural Perspective. He is consultant editor to the Scripture and Hermeneutics seminar. Karl Moller (PhD in Old Testament at the University of Gloucestershire) is lecturer in theology and religious studies at St. Martin's College, Lancaster, and senior tutor at the Carlisle and Blackburn Diocesan Training Institute. He is the author of A Prophet in Debate: The Rhetoric of Persuasion in the Book of Amos. He has also co-edited Renewing Biblical Interpretation and After Pentecost: Language and Biblical Interpretation. He is preparing the forthcoming commentaries Obadiah, Jonah, Micah (Apollos Old Testament Commentary) and The Book of Amos (The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary.