03754nam a2200565Ki 4500 ocn973325358 OCoLC 20200709060533.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 170221s2016 miu ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T 9781467445429 (electronic bk.) 1467445428 (electronic bk.) 9780802872203 0802872204 1470825 (N$T) (OCoLC)973325358 BS511.3 .R335 2016eb BIB 000000 bisacsh REL 006160 bisacsh REL 006680 bisacsh 220.6/8 23 MAIN Radner, Ephraim, 1956- author. Time and the word : figural reading of the Christian scriptures / Ephraim Radner. Grand Rapids, Michighan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016. 1 online resource (vii, 326 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Part 1. The history and theology of figural reading. Figural history as a question -- The fate of figural reading -- Imagining figural time -- Creative omnipotence and the figures of scripture -- Figural speech and the incarnational synecdoche -- Part 2. Figural reading in practice. Juxtapositional reading and the force of the lectionary -- Trinitarian love means two testaments -- The Word's work: figural preaching and scriptural conformance -- Appendix: Four figural sermons. Time and the Word presents the first significant theological account of the foundations and methods of the figural reading of Scripture, reintroducing contemporary scholars to a traditional approach to biblical interpretation that dates back to Jewish practice from before the time of Jesus. Figural interpretation continued in prominence through the early church, the Middle Ages, and into the early modern period before being forcefully rejected with the rise of historical criticism. Embracing "spiritual," "allegorical," and "prophetical" ways of understanding the Bible, figural reading once offered a broad approach to reading Scripture -- an approach that Ephraim Radner here engages through a foundational theological lens. In Time and the Word Radner first uncovers the theological presuppositions of figural reading, historically and philosophically, focusing especially on the Christian understanding of time and the divine. He then moves from the theoretical to the concrete, looking at examples of how figural reading of the Bible gives rise to specific doctrinal claims about God and informs Christian teaching and preaching. Print version record. Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible Hermeneutics. Bible. fast (OCoLC)fst01356024 Hermeneutics. fast (OCoLC)fst00955492 BIBLES / General bisacsh RELIGION / Biblical Reference / General bisacsh RELIGION / Biblical Reference / Handbooks bisacsh Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Electronic books. Print version: Radner, Ephraim, 1956- Time and the word. Grand Rapids, Michighan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016 9780802872203 (DLC) 2016002489 (OCoLC)921167328 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1470825 EBSCOhost EBSC 1470825 92 N$T 57252 57252