On Signs, Christ, Truth and the Interpretation of Scripture
Ebook
Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to address the question of truth in the public sphere. In the face of the degeneration of public normative discourse, the book finds in Augustine the resources for the repair of a series of (post)modern oppositions, making way for a rehabilitation of public normativity.
The book discovers in Augustine a truth that is at once inward and public. It is a truth which both scriptural author and interpreter, prompted by the words of Scripture, seek in common. It is a truth which Christ speaks on behalf of others, and which others in turn are liberated to speak in Christ.
Through Augustine, Ticciati offers a scriptural hermeneutic that overcomes a false opposition between modern and postmodern modes of reading, and arrives at a Christologically informed vision of coinherence rather than inclusion, of substitutionary rather than tokenist representation, and of cosmic rather than colonial breadth.
Explores Augustine's scriptural interpretation and examines the ways in which he handles biblical signs in practice.
Addresses the problem of biblical literacy in our times
Puts the modern reader in touch with a scriptural and doctrinal culture
It addresses the perennial questions of the relation between mind and matter, history and spirit, and particularity and universality
Introduction
Chapter 1:
Normativity in De Magistro
Chapter 2:
Truth-Seeking in Confessions
Chapter 3:
Christ in Enarrationes in Psalmos
Conclusion
Index
- Title: On Signs, Christ, Truth and the Interpretation of Scripture
- Author: Susannah Ticciati
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780567682895, 9780567682826, 056768282X, 0567682897
- Resource ID: LLS:9780567682895
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-04T07:29:48Z
Susannah Ticciati is Professor of Christian Theology at King's College London, UK.