The Bible the Interpreter of Human History

Theology ◽  
1937 ◽  
Vol 35 (207) ◽  
pp. 141-153
Author(s):  
J. K. Mozley
Keyword(s):  
Human History ◽  
The Bible

Gospel Truth? Howard Brenton's Paul and the Bible

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-271
Author(s):  
John H. Baker
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Human History ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

In his play Paul, first staged at the National Theatre in 2005, Howard Brenton attempted a dramatic portrayal of one of the most influential and controversial figures in human history, the man many regard as the ‘founder’ of Christianity. In this article John Baker explores the complex relationship between Brenton's Paul and his Biblical counterpart, and asks what drew an avowed atheist and socialist to a dramatic consideration of a religious leader often condemned as authoritarian, anti-Semitic and misogynistic. John Baker was awarded his PhD by the University of Manchester in 1999. He currently teaches English Literature at the University of Westminster.

Biblical Questioning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Human History ◽  
Highest Good ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Independent Investigation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Narratives

Questions posed by God and biblical characters in the Hebrew Bible are often philosophically empowering moments. They transpire from the very inception of human history, according to the Bible’s own reconstructed version of it. Rather than divinely imposed law, biblical questioning is a vital tool initiating the decisive biblical way toward truth through independent investigation. Questions then recur throughout various biblical narratives, revealing the Bible’s philosophical dimension. As such, they may indicate the Bible’s conception of the essential expression of humanity, or where the Bible locates the beginning of serious thought, and how it suggests proceeding in the search for truth and the highest good. This chapter explores specific episodes where questions are posed, beginning with the Garden of Eden and ending with the book of Job.

Influence: On Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-105
Author(s):  
Michal Beth Dinkler
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Human History ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
Short Answer ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Do So

Abstract The influence of the Bible in human history is staggering. Biblical texts have inspired grand social advancements, intellectual inquiries, and aesthetic achievements. Yet, the Bible has also given rise to hatred, violence, and oppression—often with deadly consequences. How does the Bible exert such extraordinary influence? The short answer is rhetoric. In Influence: On Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation, Michal Beth Dinkler demonstrates that, contrary to popular opinion, rhetoric is not inherently “empty” or disingenuous. Rhetoric refers to the art of persuasion. Dinkler argues that the Bible is by nature rhetorical, and that understanding the art of persuasion is therefore vital for navigating biblical literature and its interpretation. Influence invites readers to think critically about biblical rhetoric and the rhetoric of biblical interpretation, and offers a clear and compelling guide for how to do so.

Revisionism in ET-Inspired Religions

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Brian Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Human History ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
The Bible

By utilizing the textual products of extraterrestrial-inspired religious thinkers like George Van Tassel, Raëël, and Patricia Cori, as well as related materials by Erich von Dääniken and Zecharia Sitchin, this article explores the concept of revisionism in ET-inspired religions. The authors examined in this article reread ancient religious texts, especially the Bible, as containing evidence of extraterrestrial influence in the course of human history. The anatomy of this "drive to revise" human history is explored, including an examination of how an improvisational millenarianism combines with a cultic milieu suspicious of authority and hegemonic narratives, and the conspiratorial intellectual maverick willing to work with "stigmatized" knowledge to produce narratives that are highly critical and suspicious of established intellectual authorities and procedures.

Scripture, Inspiration and the Word of God

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Garrett
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Human History ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
Adequate Theory ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The One ◽  
Dialogical Relation ◽  
As If

This article seeks to restate the idea of the inspiration of scripture in the context of contemporary debates about authority. It is argued that an adequate theory of scripture must be constructed as part of a comprehensive theology of the “word of God”, on the one hand, and a dynamic theology of the Spirit, on the other. In short, the doctrine of the inspiration of scripture cannot be stated in isolation, as if the Bible could be treated as an isolated object, whole and complete in itself. Only as the word of God empowered by the Spirit of God is comprehended in all its dimensions, and as the reception and interpretation of each dimension is apprehended in dialogical relation to the others, can we grasp what is the unique and irreplaceable part that biblical literature plays in the economy of God's self-declaration in human history.

scholarly journals Hermeneutika Alkitab Dalam Sejarah: Prinsip Penafsiran Alkitab Dari Masa ke Masa

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohanes Verdianto
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Human History ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
The Bible

The practice of hermeneutics has become an inseparable part of human history. Hermeneutics as human activity arises from the need to interpret thoughts or texts written by others. A historical search reveals that there have been some changes in the principles of biblical hermeneutics. This paper aims to find out what are the principles of hermeneutics that developed from the early church up to the postmodern era. This paper is a historical approach using documentary research method. The results of this study state that there are at least three principles of biblical interpretation from the early church to postmodern times. First, the literal hermeneutics of the Bible was agreed upon by all early church Fathers, although contextual, grammatical, and historical interpretation of the Bible was emphasized by two church Fathers, namely Theodore and Chrysostom. This literal hermeneutics was used until the reform era. Second, modern hermeneutics refers to reason rather than the literal principle. This is the emerge of hermeneutics of relativism which bases truth on the senses and reasons. This principle agrees the application of rationalism to the Bible which leads to historical-critical. Third, contemporary (postmodern) hermeneutics is more towards a process of understanding that is temporary. This means that understanding has no clear boundaries, and that interpreters cannot reach a fully certain understanding. Thus, contemporary biblical hermeneutics is full of subjectivism, relativism, pluralism and is temporary.

scholarly journals Karl Marx and Liberation Theology: Dialectical Materialism and Christian Spirituality in, against, and beyond Contemporary Capitalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 598-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter McLaren ◽  
Petar Jandrić
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Human History ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism

This paper explores convergences and discrepancies between liberation theology and the works of Karl Marx through the dialogue between one of the key contemporary proponents of liberation theology, Peter McLaren, and the agnostic scholar in critical pedagogy, Petar Jandrić. The paper briefly outlines liberation theology and its main convergences with the works of Karl Marx. Exposing striking similarities between the two traditions in denouncing the false God of money, it explores differences in their views towards individualism and collectivism. It rejects shallow rhetorical homologies between Marx and the Bible often found in liberation theology, and suggests a change of focus from seeking a formal or Cartesian logical consistency between Marxism and Christianity to exploring their dialectical consistency. Looking at Marxist and Christian approaches to morality, it outlines close links between historical materialism and questions of value. It concludes that the shared eschaton of Marxism and the Christianity gives meaning to human history and an opportunity to change it.

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