TY - BOOK AU - Radner,Ephraim TI - Time and the word: figural reading of the Christian scriptures SN - 9781467445429 AV - BS511.3 .R335 2016eb U1 - 220.6/8 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michighan PB - William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company KW - Bible KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Hermeneutics KW - fast KW - BIBLES / General KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Biblical Reference / General KW - RELIGION / Biblical Reference / Handbooks KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1470825 ER -