Living and Active : Scripture in the Economy of Salvation

by Work, Telford

• ISBN13: 9780802847249
• ISBN10: 0802847242
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Author Biography

Telford Work is assistant professor of religious studies at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Richard B. Hays
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction the Crisis of Scripture	1	(1)
Why?	1	(2)
Iconoclasm as a Paradigm for Reflection on Scripture	3	(1)
An Era of ``Biblioclasm''?	4	(5)
Preview: The Structure of Systematic Bibliology	9	(6)
Early Indicators: The Bible in the Sensus Fidelium	15	(4)
The Analogy of the Word in Theology Proper	19	(8)
Not so Fast: The Objections of James Barr and Markus Barth	27	(6)
1. THE BEGINNING OF SCRIPTURE: THE GOD OF WORD	33	(92)
Entering the Circle	33	(3)
Athanasius: The Word's Self-Involvement in the World	36	(14)
Saving Knowledge: Scripture among the Word's Self-Manifestations	39	(3)
The Role of Scripture in Athanasius' Account	42	(2)
Knowledge as a Form of God's Saving Presence	44	(3)
Toward an Incarnational Ontology of Theological Language	47	(3)
Augustine: The Divine Ontology of Biblical Practice	50	(17)
On Christian Doctrine: Augustine's ``Rhetoric of Conversion''	51	(1)
Augustine's Analogy of the Word	52	(4)
From Incarnation to Interpretation: Scripture's Mediating Role	56	(1)
The Will of the Father and the Intent of Scripture	57	(2)
Scripture as God's Rhetoric	59	(2)
Biblical Truth as Divine Ethos	61	(2)
Biblical Kenosis: God's Word Put at Risk	63	(4)
Barth: The Threefold God and the Threefold Word	67	(33)
Scripture as the Second Form of the Word of God	68	(4)
Barth's Analogy of the Word	72	(2)
The Divine Transcendence of ``Indirect Identity''	74	(2)
Obedience and Freedom: The Two Hands of the Word of God	76	(2)
Evaluating Barth's Proposal	78	(6)
The Word of God and the Word of Jesus: A ``Barthian'' Critique of Barth	84	(4)
The Later Barth and His Implications	88	(3)
Lessons from Barth	91	(2)
The Personification of Biblical Narrative: Does the Analogy Equivocate?	93	(4)
Kenosis as the Answer to Barth's Project	97	(3)
Balthasar: The Word of the Holy Spirit	100	(25)
Biblical Word as Icon: Applying the Iconodules' Case to Scripture	106	(3)
Are Words Like Images?	109	(1)
Unsubordinating the Spirit: The Role of Spirit-Christology in Scripture	110	(2)
Annunciation and the Double Agency of Biblical Speech	112	(6)
Jesus' Baptism: The Word in Spirit and Power	118	(2)
Kenosis and Power Reconciled	120	(2)
Conclusion: A Bibliology of Word and Spirit	122	(3)
2. THE MISSION OF SCRIPTURE: A SCHOOL FOR ALL THE WORLD	125	(90)
Form versus Function? The False Dilemma of Postmodern Bibliology	125	(4)
Scripture as Divine Missionary	129	(1)
My Hope is in Your Word: Scripture's Cosmic Mission to Israel	130	(37)
Athanasius' Soteriology of Scripture	132	(2)
A Conversation Cut Short and Restored: The Saving Work of God's First Words	134	(2)
Scripture as Presence	136	(2)
From the Patriarchs to the Conquest: The Word as Gatherer and Deliverer	138	(5)
The State and its Critics: Holy Words of Kings and Prophets	143	(4)
The Beginnings of Tanakh	147	(2)
Inner-Biblical Exegesis: The Work of Scripture on Scripture	149	(2)
A Very Present Help: Scripture's Pneumatic Mediation of Salvation	151	(3)
Restoration: Israel Regathers around the Tanakh	154	(1)
Human Wisdom and Its Lord	154	(4)
The Rise of Apocalyptic: The Word as Judge	158	(4)
Torah from Temple to Synagogue	162	(2)
God Speaks in Greek Too: The Septuagint's Development	164	(2)
Second Temple Judaism's Biblical Practices: Scripture Made Personal	166	(1)
The Language of the Logos: Scripture and Jesus	167	(48)
Creation Becomes Creator: The Canon's Formation of Jesus	168	(2)
The Work of the Son as the Will of the Father	170	(4)
Sword of the Spirit: The Word of God in Jesus' Hands	174	(4)
Sin, Grace, and the Hermeneutics of Salvation	178	(3)
The Election of Scripture	181	(7)
Scripture as a Means of the Atonement	188	(6)
The Bible as Kerygma: Jesus' Dialogue with Scripture	194	(4)
This is That: The Pentecostal Fulfillment of Joel and the Psalms	198	(2)
Typology Run Riot? Matthew's Vision of Biblical Fulfillment	200	(3)
Confession as the Ultimate Exegetical ``Technique''	203	(2)
The Gospel's Reformation of the Canon	205	(3)
Texts of Triumph: The Canonical Shape of Holy Scriptures	208	(4)
Summary: The Language of the Messiah	212	(1)
Biblical Community: Scripture in the Age of the Church	212	(3)
3. THE END OF SCRIPTURE: GOD'S WORD IN FAITHFUL PRACTICE	215	(100)
Church as the Bible's Community	215	(19)
Between Ascension and Return: Scripture's Eschatological Context	218	(3)
Presence-in-Absence: God's Eschatological Relationship to the Church	221	(1)
The Church as Eschatological Gathering	222	(2)
Word as Response: James Barr versus Karl Barth	224	(2)
The Divine Humanity of Christian Preaching	226	(3)
Human, but Human Enough?	229	(5)
Beyond Argument: The Humanity of Churchly Biblical Interpretation	234	(27)
What is the Church? The Historical Problem of Christian Diversity	234	(1)
What is Truth? The Philosophical Problem of Christian Diversity	235	(1)
Are Truth-Claims Even Defensible?	236	(1)
Overcoming the Postmodern Impasse: Exegesis as Argument	237	(3)
Locating Commonality and Difference in Canonical Practice	240	(3)
Is Life in Christ an Argument?	243	(2)
The Divine Shape of Christian Discourse	245	(1)
Unity of God's Fellow Workers and Their Word	246	(1)
Diversity and Divisiveness in the Church: A Place for Both?	247	(3)
Diversity versus Discord	250	(2)
Holiness as the Divine Appointment of Difference	252	(3)
From MacIntyre to Paul: Beyond Argument	255	(4)
From the Church of History to the Church of Faith: The Bible as Transformer	259	(2)
The Bible's Life in the Church	261	(40)
Scripture as Process, Content, and Instances of Tradition	261	(2)
Dumitru Staniloae: Tradition is Scripture	263	(3)
Protestantism: Is Tradition Scripture?	266	(2)
Karl Barth: The Church under the Scriptures	268	(4)
Ernst Kasemann: Tradition over tradition	272	(6)
James McClendon: Scripture is tradition	278	(5)
Avery Dulles: Is Tradition More Than Scripture?	283	(5)
Tradition and Eschaton	288	(6)
Four Traditions, One Tradition?	294	(4)
Tradition and Translation	298	(3)
Glorify God and Enjoy Him Forever: The End of Scripture	301	(14)
Scripture as Worship Leader	301	(3)
The Voyage Home: Scripture's Role in Personal Salvation	304	(4)
Allegory as the Politics of Sanctification	308	(2)
The Bible after the End	310	(3)
Conclusion: The Church's Book	313	(2)
AFTERWORD THE MEASURE OF SCRIPTURE: EVALUATING SYSTEMATIC BIBLIOLOGY	315	(14)
Implanted Word, Fiery Tongue: The Indispensability of Scripture	315	(1)
Bibliology's Answers to Liberalism, Evangelicalism, and Narcissism	316	(1)
The Place of Bibliology: Everywhere	317	(3)
Hermeneutics: Bibliology's Ultimate Fruits-Test	320	(9)
References	329	(10)
Index	339