On Reading the Bible as Scripture, Encountering the Church

Author:

Nemes Steven1

Affiliation:

1. Fuller Theological Seminary

Abstract

Abstract As an exercise in the ‘theology of disclosure’, the present essay proposes a kind of phenomenological analysis of the act of reading the Bible as Scripture with the goal of bringing to light the theoretical commitments which it implicitly demands. This sort of analysis can prove helpful for the continuing disputes among Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox insofar as it is relevant for one of the principal points of controversy between them: namely, the relationship between Scripture, Tradition, and Church as theological authorities. It proceeds by analyzing both the objective and subjective ‘poles’ of the act, and it illuminates the presence of the Church and her Tradition on both sides. The Church—i.e., the community of God’s people—is both that which is immediately encountered in the text, as well as the factor which enables scriptural reading in the first place. The article terminates with an application of the insights of the preceding discussion to the controversy about icons.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Reference37 articles.

1. ***(1999) Documents of the Christian Church. Bettenson B and Maunder C (eds) New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

2. Calvin J (1845) Institutes of the Christian Religion, Beveridge H (trans). Available for online reading at: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes (accessed 11 August 2017).

3. Collins KJ and Walls JL (2017) Roman but Not Catholic: What Remains at Stake 500 Years after the Reformation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.

4. De Lubac H (2007) History and Spirit: The Understanding of Scripture according to Origen, Nash AE (trans) San Francisco, CA: Ignatius.

5. Feser E (2014) Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Books.

Cited by 1 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献 订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. Orthodoxy and Heresy;Elem Problems God;2022-10-20

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3