Learning the Language of Scripture : : Origen, Wisdom, and the Logic of Interpretation / / Mark Randall James.

• Superior document: Studies in Systematic Theology ; 24
• VerfasserIn: James, Mark Randall,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL, , 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Systematic Theology ; 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 pages).

In Learning the Language of Scripture , Mark Randall James offers a new account of theological interpretation as a sapiential practice of learning the language of Scripture, drawing on recently discovered Homilies on the Psalms by the influential early theologian Origen of Alexandria (2nd-3rd c. C.E) Widely regarded as one of the most arbitrary interpreters, James shows that Origen's appearance of arbitrariness is a result of the modern tendency to neglect the role of wisdom in scriptural interpretation. James demonstrates that Origen offers a compelling model of a Christian pragmatism in which learning and correcting linguistic practice is a site of the transformative pedagogy of the divine Logos.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Problem of Hermeneutic Arbitrariness -- 2 Origen and Arbitrariness -- 3 Method: Descriptive Logic -- 4 Learning the Language of Scripture -- 1 Origen and Stoic Logic -- 1 Stoic Philosophy of Language -- 2 Origen on Language and Logic -- 3 Conclusion -- 2 From Lexis to Logos -- 1 The Pedagogy of the Logos -- 2 Elements of the Movement from Lexis to Logos -- 3 Conclusion -- 3 The Pragmatics of Scriptural Utterances -- 1 Deixis -- 2 Implicature -- 3 Conclusion -- 4 The Grammar of Scriptural Language -- 1 Inquiry and Vagueness -- 2 Habits of Scripture -- 3 Invention -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 The Deification of Discourse -- 1 Bold Speech -- 2 Parrhesia and Deification -- 3 Conclusion -- 6 Origenism as Pragmatism: A Sketch of a Sapiential Hermeneutic -- 1 Wisdom -- 2 Scripture and Philosophy -- 3 Sapiential Interpretation -- 4 Towards a Sapiential Theology of Scripture -- Works Cited -- Index of Citations -- Index of Names and Subjects.