How Scriptural Interpretation Built a More Just America
While conservative groups have often appealed to the Bible to support their positions, so too have many progressive voices rooted in the Bible, seeing their struggles in its narratives and characters, and drawing on its verses to prove the truth of their arguments. Abolitionism countered pro-slavery arguments with copious biblical material. ......
Is there a distinctive Lutheran ethical stance? What does this deep and robust religious tradition have to say to today's dilemmas in personal and social life, business, and public policy?Here, ten Lutheran ethicists explore Lutheran emphases, themes, and approaches to offer their account of Lutheran ethics as a way of life in today's world. ......
In The Promise of Not-Knowing, David Fredrickson challenges readers and interpreters of the New Testament to engage the text not simply for its usefulness or practicality, but rather to explore the text with a sense of mystery, expecting and hoping to have one's world shaken by the otherness that haunts the familiar.
Surveying Jenson's work, this volume lays out the contours and key contributions of Jenson's thought for modern Christology, theological interpretation of Scripture, the doctrine of the Trinity in light of the recent Trinitarian revival, and ecumenical theological relations.
In this 40th anniversary edition of the classic text from one of the most influential biblical scholars of our time, Walter Brueggemann, offers a theological and ethical reading of the Hebrew Bible.This edition builds off the revised and updated 2001 edition and includes a new afterword by Brueggemann and a new foreword by Davis Hankins.
The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier
The Prophetic Lens takes an important look at the use of the video camera as an indispensable prophetic tool for the security of Black lives and greater possibility for racial justice. The book highlights both the prophetic potential of the camera and the context of Blackness as a liminal existence amid a context dominated by whiteness.
The Prophets introduces students to the rise of prophecy in ancient Israel, the messages of individual prophets, the significance of the compositional history of the prophetic writings, and insights for interpreting the message of the prophets today. This textbook includes numerous images, charts, and maps to enhance the experience of the ......
This concise commentary on the Prophets, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation. The Prophets introduces fresh perspectives and draws students, preachers, and interested readers into the challenging work of interpretation.
This is the third volume (of a four-volume set) of readings of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament from the perspective of Liberation Theology and feminist criticism. In it Dempsey provides both overviews and discussions of specific passages. Her approach allows her to provide critique and to plumb the depths of the texts' potential for liberation. ......
