The Bible and the University

by Series Editors Craig Bartholomew, Anthony C. Thiselton; Editors David Lyle Jeffrey and C. Stephen Evans

• ISBN13: 9780310234180
• ISBN10: 0310234182
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

The eighth in a series of books that result from annual conferences of the top evangelical hermeneutical scholars in the world.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Contributors	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
The Bible in Intellectual History	p. 3
Authority and Wisdom	p. 5
Authority and the Book	p. 6
A Flourishing of the Disciplines	p. 9
Ad Fontes Redivivus?	p. 11
Postscript	p. 14
The Bible, the University, and the God Who Hides	p. 17
Sources of Knowledge	p. 18
The Bible as a Source of Knowledge	p. 20
A Brief History of 'Knowledge'	p. 26
Knowing vs. Not-Knowing	p. 31
Knowledge of the God who Hides	p. 34
The Task of the Christian Intellectual	p. 37
The Place of Scripture in Christian Theology	p. 40
An Important Platitude	p. 40
The Creation of Biblical Studies	p. 41
The Unexpected Disaster	p. 43
The Really Deep Problem	p. 45
Retracing Our Steps	p. 46
Back to the Crisis Again	p. 51
Turning to the Future	p. 52
No Longer Queen: The Theological Disciplines and Their Sisters	p. 59
Foundational Assumptions in Biblical Scholarship	p. 62
Bringing Scripture to Bear on Christian Scholarship	p. 75
At the School of Truth: The Ecclesial Character of Theology and Exegesis in the Thought of Benedict XVI	p. 80
Truth, Freedom, and the Academy	p. 81
The Critique of Academic Biblical Criticism	p. 84
The Ecclesial Locus of Theology and Exegesis	p. 90
Benedict's New Synthesis	p. 99
The Spiritual Sense(s) Today	p. 116
Recovering the Spiritual Sense(s)	p. 116
Rethinking the 'Apostolic' Exegetical Tradition	p. 118
Reconsidering Terminology: 'Allegory' and 'Typology'	p. 124
Reclaiming the 'Historical' Sense	p. 128
Restoring the Analogical Imagination	p. 132
Situationism and the New Testament Psychology of the Heart	p. 139
Introduction	p. 139
Situationism	p. 140
Traits and Situations	p. 143
The Psychology of the Heart	p. 145
Application of the Psychology of the Heart to Situationism	p. 151
Conclusion	p. 158
The Bible, Positive Law, and the Legal Academy	p. 161
The Bible and Positive Law	p. 162
Jesus and the Positive Law	p. 170
The Legal Academy	p. 178
Biblical Imagery and Educational Imagination: Comenius and the Garden of Delight	p. 188
Faith, Learning and Metaphor	p. 188
The Garden of Delight as a School	p. 191
The School as a Garden of Delight	p. 198
The Garden of Delight Today	p. 203
Coda: Of Math, Grammar and Reconciliation	p. 209
Reading Habits, Scripture and the University	p. 216
Scripture and Scholarship	p. 218
Inhospitable Environments	p. 224
Moving Forward in Hope	p. 232
The Case for Empirical Assessment of Biblical Literacy in America	p. 240
Introduction	p. 240
Are Christians and Non-Christians Different on Key Social Outcome Indicators?	p. 241
Is America Becoming a Secular and Less Religious Society?	p. 243
Data on Religion in America	p. 246
Is Bible Literacy Low and Declining in America?	p. 247
Conclusions	p. 252
'As if God Were Dead': American Literature and the Question Of Scripture	p. 253
'As if God Were Dead': Emerson and Scriptural Authority	p. 255
'The Secret of Our Paternity': Scripture in the School of Melville	p. 262
'An Antique Volume': Dickinson and the Limits of Scripture	p. 268
A Theological Response	p. 274
Biblical Literacy, Academic Freedom, and Christian Liberty	p. 284
Eclipse of Biblical Narrative	p. 285
Egotism and the Common Lot	p. 289
The Bible and Academic Freedom	p. 292
Afterword - The Bible and the Academy: Some Concluding Thoughts and Possible Future Directions	p. 303
University of Gloucestershire	p. 311
The British and Foreign Bible Society	p. 312
Baylor University	p. 313
Redeemer University College	p. 314
Scripture Index	p. 315
Names Index	p. 317
Subject Index	p. 322
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