The Bible: Culture, Community, Society
Overview
What kind of authority does Scripture have? How is Scripture’s authority to be negotiated in relation to other sources of authority? And what are the implications of confessing the Bible to be authoritative? The Bible: Culture, Community, and Society seeks to answer these questions, covering three core themes. First, contributors discuss reading the Bible in the context of modernity and the challenges that modernity has posed to the Bible’s authority as the Word of God. Second, essays explore the Bible as a text that forms the church community and how the Bible as an authoritative text shapes a culture. Third, contributors address the issue of reading the Bible as a public text and the challenges posed by holding to the Bible as the Word of God in a religiously diverse context. The highly distinguished contributors include Ben Quash, David Ferguson, Angus Paddison, and Zoë Bennett.
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- Discusses reading the Bible in the context of modernity
- Explores the Bible as a text that forms the church community
- Addresses the issue of reading the Bible as a public text
- “The Bible in Modernity” by David Fergusson
- “Science and the Bible: Adam and his ‘Fall’ as a Case Study” by Richard H. Bell
- “Prophecy and the Power of Life: Reading the Elijah Story Historically” by Ellen F. Davis
- “Pierced-Side Hermeneutics: Reading the Scriptures in the Spirit of Luther” by Jacob Phillips
- “‘There is no other light than this by which they can see each other’s faces and live’: John Ruskin and the Bible” by Zoë Bennett
- “Community, Imagination and the Bible” by Ben Quash
- “Bible in Community: Authority and Contemporary Ecclesiology” by Matthew Prevett
- “The Bible in a World of Religious Pluralism: Reading the Bible with and for the Jewish People?” by Gavin D’Costa
- Traversing Towards the Other (Mark 7:24–30): The Syrophoenician Woman Amidst Voicelessness and Loss” by Peter Admirand
- “The Bible and Public Theology” by Andrew Bradstock
- “The Bible and Public Policy: What Kind of Authority?” by Neil Messer and Angus Paddison
- “Sola Scriptura and the Public Square: Richard Hooker and a Protestant Paradigm for Political Engagement” by W. Bradford Littlejohn
- Title: The Bible: Culture, Community, Society
- Authors: Angus Paddison, Neil Messer
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Evidences, authority, etc.--Congresses; Bible › Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Congresses
- ISBNs: 9780567049445, 0567049442
- Resource ID: LLS:THEBIBLEPADDISON
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-03-02T22:11:34Z
Angus Paddison is theology lecturer at the University of Winchester.
Neil Messer is reader in theology and head of the department of theology and religious studies at the University of Winchester. He is the author of Respecting Life: Theology and Bioethics, Selfish Genes and Christian Ethics: Theological and Ethical Reflections on Evolutionary Biology, and Study Guide to Christian Ethics.