Many readers of the Bible think that interpreting Scripture well simply requires a two way dialogue between themselves and the text. However, if we believe that God has been speaking through the Bible to devout Christians for the past 2000 years it would seem that we should find a way to identify the insights they perceived in the text so that we could learn to read the text with them.
Using reception theory, the goal of Reading the Bible with Giants is to engage the contemporary reader, the Bible and the history of its interpretation in a three-way dialogue.
David Paul Parris is Associate Director of Fuller Theological Seminary, Colorado Springs.
ISBN: 9781842272732
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: PATERNOSTER PRESS - published 15/12/2006
Format: N/A