Critical Realism and the Christian Scriptures
Foundations and Readings
Joseph K. Gordon
9781626007260
340 pages
Marquette University Press
Overview
The possibilities of global collaboration, and new opportunities and energy for interdisciplinary and even interreligious work, have created the conditions to begin tearing down the figurative walls that have separated literary, historical, contextual, ecclesial, philosophical, and theological approaches to the Christian Scriptures.This collection of essays, from an international cast of scholars working in the fields of biblical scholarship and historical, contextual, and systematic theology, demonstrates the tremendous promise of Bernard Lonergan's critical realist hermeneutics in our present situation. These chapters make significant, creative contributions to the work of coming to understand the Christian Scriptures in a way that meets such challenges and opportunities attentively, intelligently, reasonably, responsibly, and even faithfully.
