Christian Theologies of Scripture : : A Comparative Introduction / / ed. by Justin S. Holcomb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ayres, Lewis,; Baldwin, Lewis V.,; Bright, Pamela,; Candler, Peter M.,; Cochran, Pamela D. H.,; Cunningham, Mary Kathleen,; Dickens, W. T.,; Franke, John R.,; Hensley, Jeffrey,; Higton, Mike,; Holcomb, Justin S.,; Horton, Michael S.,; Loughlin, Gerard,; Mattox, Mickey L.,; Murphy, Stephen W.,; Prudlo, Donald S.,; Reno, R. R.,; Ward, Graham,; Zachman, Randall C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Holcomb, Justin S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

All religious traditions that ground themselves in texts must grapple with certain questions concerning the texts' authority. Yet there has been much debate within Christianity concerning the nature of scripture and how it should be understood-a debate that has gone on for centuries.Christian T...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Patristic and Medieval
• 1. Patristic and Medieval Theologies of Scripture
• 2. Origen
• 3. St. Augustine
• 4. St. Thomas Aquinas
• Part II: Reformation and Counter-Reformation
• 5. Theologies of Scripture in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
• 6. Martin Luther
• 7. John Calvin
• 8. Scripture and Theology in Early Modern Catholicism
• Part III. Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• 9. Theologies of Scripture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• 10. Friedrich Schleiermacher
• 11. Karl Barth
• 12. Hans Urs von Balthasar
• 13. Hans Frei
• Part IV: Contextual Theologies of Scripture
• 14. Tradition and Traditions
• 15. Scripture, Feminism, and Sexuality
• 16. Scripture in the African-American Christian Tradition
• 17. Postmodern Scripture
• About the Contributors
• Index