Black, C. Clifton 1955-

Reading scripture with the saints / C. Clifton Black ; foreword by Stephen E. Fowl. - 1 online resource.

Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Welcome; Patristic Stirrings; Chapter 2: Trinity and Exegesis; Chapter 3: Serving the Food of Full-Grown Adults; Chapter 4: Listen; Middle Ages; Chapter 5: Transfigured Exegesis; Chapter 6: Doubtless Thomas; Chapter 7: Luther Times Three; Some Early Moderns; Chapter 8: "Not of an Age, But for All Time"; Chapter 9: Searcher of the Oracles Divine; Chapter 10: American Scriptures; Conclusion; Chapter 11: Until Later; Appendices. 1: Washington's Farewell2: Lincoln's Second Inaugural; Bibliography; Back cover.

Reading Scripture with the Saints is a small museum. On its pages hang portraits of Christianity's ""masters of the sacred page"": Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo, Benedict of Nursia, Maximus Confessor, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther and Charles Wesley. Other, surprising figures also appear, such as Shakespeare, Washington and Lincoln. How did these figures from history interpret Scripture? What might their diverse approaches teach today's readers of the Old and New Testaments? What is missing in contemporary biblical interpretation that an awareness of the history of exegesis might comple.

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