Knowledge by Ritual : : A Biblical Prolegomenon to Sacramental Theology / / Dru Johnson.
What do rituals have to do with knowledge? Knowledge by Ritual examines the epistemological role of rites in Christian Scripture. By putting biblical rituals in conversation with philosophical and scientific views of knowledge, Johnson argues that knowing is a skilled adeptness in both the biblical...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Journal of Theological Interpretation Supplements ;
13 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction: Overcoming Ritual's Negative Connotations
- PART I: EPISTEMOLOGY, RITUAL THEORY, AND METHODOLOGY
- Chapter 1 Why Standard Theories of Knowledge Are Insufficient
- Chapter 2 What Is a Rite and What Does It Have to Do with Knowledge?
- Chapter 3 How We Will Proceed: Cautions and Liabilities of This Study
- Part II The General Case for Ritual Knowing
- Chapter 4 The Biblical Idea of Truth and Its Consequences for Rituals
- Chapter 5 The Centrality of the Body for Knowing
- Chapter 6 The Scientific Use of Ritual in order to Know
- Part III The Biblical Case for Ritual Knowing
- Chapter 7 Why Israel's Rites Are Epistemological in the Hebrew Bible
- Chapter 8 Tests and the Prophetic Indictment of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible
- Chapter 9 Continuity and Ritual Knowing in the Early Jerusalemite Jesus Community
- Chapter 10 Ritualization: A Better Construct than Supersessionism
- Part IV Theological Implications of Ritual Knowing
- Chapter 11 Ritual as an Ethically Prepared Process
- Chapter 12 Knowledge as a Subset of Ethics
- Chapter 13 Implications for Constructing Sacramental Theology
- Bibliography
- Scripture Index
- Author and Subject Index