Learning the language of Scripture
Mark Randall James · 2021
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"In Learning the Language of Scripture, Mark Randall James offers a new account of theological interpretation as a sapiential practice of learning the language of Scripture, drawing on recently discovered Homilies on the Psalms by the influential early theologian Origen of Alexandria (2nd-3rd c. C.E). Widely regarded as one of the most arbitrary interpreters, James shows that Origen's appearance of arbitrariness is a result of the modern tendency to neglect the role of wisdom in scriptural interpretation. James demonstrates that Origen offers a compelling model of a Christian pragmatism in which learning and correcting linguistic practice is a site of the transformative pedagogy of the divine Logos"--
Book details
- Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Series
- Studies in systematic theology -- volume 24
- Publisher
- Brill
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9789004448537
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