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Carregando... Seized by Truth: Reading the Bible as Scripturede Joel B. Green
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Overall, Seized by Truth presents a strong argument that the people of God should not strive for neutrality in their interaction with the Bible if it is to be formative in their lives. Green's positive evaluation of a reader's self-conscious theological location within the Christian community, coupled with an affirmation of rigorous historical and textual work, has compelling elements, and it challenges those who either intentionally or unwittingly denigrate theology, practice, and application to a status secondary to history and text. Nonetheless, if I as an interpreter did not already share Green's theological presuppositions about the nature of Scripture, the arguments he presents would not be compelling.
We read the Bible and interpret Scripture in order to live in grace-filled relation to God's divine purpose. When we approach the Bible as Scripture author, Joel Green, takes seriously the faith statement that the Bible is our Book; these scriptures are our Scripture. We are not reading someone else's mail--as though reading the Bible had to do foremost with recovering an ancient meaning intended for someone else and then translating its principles for use in our own lives. When we recall that we are the people of God to whom the Bible is addressed as Scripture, we realize that the fundamental transformation is not the transformation of an ancient message into a contemporary meaning, bur rather the transformation of our lives by means of God's Word. This means that reading the Bible as Scripture has less to do with what tools we bring to the task, however important these may be, and more to do with our own dispositions as we come to our engagement with Scripture. We come not so much to retrieve facts or to gain information, but to be formed and ultimately, transformed. Scripture does not present us with texts to be mastered but with a Word, God's Word, intent on mastering us, on shaping our lives. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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