The Bible in the Contemporary World: Hermeneutical Ventures
Overview
A crucial responsibility for Christian interpreters of Scripture, says Richard Bauckham, is to understand our contemporary context and to explore the Bible’s relevance to it in ways that reflect serious critical engagement with that context. In this book Bauckham models how this task can be carried out. Bauckham calls for our reading of Scripture to lead us to greater engagement with critical issues in today’s world, including globalization, environmental degradation, and widespread poverty. He works to bring biblical texts to bear on these contemporary realities through the Bible’s metanarrative of God and the world, according to which God’s purpose takes effect in the blessing and salvation and fulfillment of the world as his cherished creation.
- Title: The Bible in the Contemporary World: Hermeneutical Ventures
- Author: Richard Bauckham
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Hermeneutics; Bible › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Church and the world › Biblical teaching; Church and social problems › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9780802872234, 9780281074846, 0802872239, 0281074844
- Resource ID: LLS:BBLCNTMPRRVNTRS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:05:48Z
Richard Bauckham (1946– ) was professor of New Testament studies at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews. He retired in 2007 from this position in order to concentrate on research and writing. He currently is the senior scholar at Ridley Hall in Cambridge and visiting professor at St. Mellitus College.
Bauckham earned a PhD at the University of Cambridge and was a fellow of St John's College. He taught theology for one year at the University of Leeds and for 15 years at the University of Manchester before teaching at the University of St Andrews. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Bauckham is known for his commentary on Jude and 2 Peter in the Word Biblical Commentary and his book Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church.