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Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts

Changing Perspectives 9

By: Bernd Diebner

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Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts

Changing Perspectives 9

By: Bernd Diebner

This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a wide range of topics in biblical studies. The 18 essays in this collection offer profound insight into the works of German scholarship which have strongly influenced biblical studies and related research in the 20th century. Being an important, but lesser recognized ‘member’ of the Copenhagen school, Diebner voiced serious criticism of contemporary biblical scholarship which is discussed in the first seven chapters. The remaining chapters offer challenging new perspectives on well-known themes, narratives, and compositions related to history, ideology, and archaeology, on the one hand, and text and canon, on the other, as alternatives to traditional historical–critical approaches. Now published in English for the first time, this volume makes these essays available to Anglophone students and scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies.

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1000968979

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Political Worship

Ethics for Christian Citizens

By: Bernd Wannenwetsch

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Political Worship

Ethics for Christian Citizens

By: Bernd Wannenwetsch

How does Christian ethics begin? This pioneering study explores the grammar of the Christian life as it is embodied and learned in worship as the formative experience of the 'fellow citizens of God's people'. The book presents the first in-depth theological investigation of the phenomenon of 'political worship' by exposing the political nature of worship and the worship dimension of politics. In a careful analysis of biblical and traditional conceptions of worship, Wannenwetsch demonstrates how the genuine political character of worship neutralizes attempts to politicize or de-politicize it. In the imprinting of the experience of divine reconciliation on the Christian body, worship challenges the deepest antagonisms of political theory and practice: antagonisms of 'private and public', 'freedom and necessity', and 'action and contemplation'. At the same time, the 'spill over' of worship into every sphere of life instils a healthy suspicion of post-liberal conceptualizations of role-mobility. In the experience of 'hearing in communion', an encounter with a word that does not deceive announces the end of the rule of the hermeneutics of suspicion. Further questions discussed include the conditions of true consensus, forgiveness as a political virtue, `political rhetoric' between accountability and self-justification, how 'reversible role-taking' can avoid losing the otherness of the other, and how the rhetoric of 'responsibility' can be saved from hubris or depression. Particular practices or dimensions of worship (confession, preaching, praising, intercession, observance of holy days) are examined and their heuristic and formative potentials explored in relation to these topics. A special feature of the study is a strong ecumenical and international focus. The book brings into conversation a variety of traditions (including Lutheran, Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox) and contemporary voices. An original contribution to Christian ethics, the book addresses systematic and practical theology as well as political theory, while indicating the essential interpenetration of these disciplines.

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OUP Oxford

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0191570354

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Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts

Changing Perspectives 9

By: Bernd Diebner

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Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts

Changing Perspectives 9

By: Bernd Diebner

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Taylor & Francis

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1000968979

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9781000968972

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Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts

Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts

Political Worship

Political Worship

Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts

Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts

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