The SCM Theological Commentary series enlists leading theologians to read and interpret Scripture for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Figures of the classical church such as Augustine, Calvin, Luther, and Wesley interpreted the Bible theologically, believing Scripture as a whole witnessed to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Modern interpreters of the Bible questioned this premise. But in recent decades, a critical mass of theologians and biblical scholars has begun to reassert the priority of a theological reading of Scripture.

Leviticus (SCM Theological Commentary on the Bible)

Ephraim Radner

SCM Press

In this first serious assessment of the meaning of church division, Ephraim Radner provides a theological rationale for today's divided church in the Christian West that goes far beyond the standard socio-historical explanations of denominationalism. Through an examination of controversial, post-Reformation discussions about the church, Radner offers a significant theory that describes the relation between Christian division and the work of the Holy Spirit within Western modernity. Radner's description of the church is based on the traditional notion that a divided church is, in a significant sense, a "dead" church, after the figure of the pneumatically abandoned "dead Christ," who himself suffers redemptively the disintegration and restoration of divided Israel in his physical and spiritual passion. The hermeneutical basis for the usefulness of this figure lies deep in the scriptural practice of the undivided church, and was common up through the Reformation. Radner's recovery of this figural perspective is applied to the cluster of pneumatological issues that define ecclesial life.

The End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West

History

World

Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source

"Biblical scholars and theologians approach the question of who Israels God is for Christians in this interdisciplinary collection of essays. Essays on both Testaments focus on figural exegesis, critical exegesis, and the value of diachronic understandings of the Old Testaments compositional history for the sake of a richer synchronic reading. Each contribution reflects upon the implkications of biblical theology and theological exegesis for interpretation of the Old and a New Testament bound together in a single scriptural legacy."--

The Identity of Israels God in Christian Scripture (Resources for Biblical Study)

Religion & Spirituality

Mark Elliott

Mark Gignilliat

Donald Collett

Christian Books & Bibles

SBL Press

The Identity of Israels God in Christian Scripture (Resources for Biblical Study) (Resources for Biblical Study, 96)

Don Collett

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