| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Explorations in practical, pastoral, and empirical theology |
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Explorations in practical, pastoral, and empirical theology.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. How Do We Read? -- What is Not Being Done -- Defining Congregational Hermeneutics -- ̀How Do We Read?' In Context -- The Tale of Two Churches -- Where We Are Going -- 2. Exploring -- Methodology Matters -- Participating Matters -- Reading ̀The Tale of Two Churches' -- 3. Hermeneutics -- Premodern -- Modern -- Postmodern -- Characterising Evangelical and Charismatic Hermeneutics -- Conceptual Resources from Hermeneutics -- Congregational Hermeneutics in Holder and Fellowship -- 4. Tradition -- Characterising English Evangelicalism -- Tradition in Holder and Fellowship -- Taking Tradition Seriously -- 5. Practices -- Bible Uses in Holder and Fellowship -- Fusion Processes -- Reflecting on Fusion Processes -- 6. Epistemology -- Speaking of Epistemology -- Fellowship Epistemology -- Holder Epistemology -- ̀Knowing' the Bible -- 7. Mediation -- Public Mediation -- Small Group Mediation -- Personal Bible Reading Mediation -- Comparing Mediatory Dynamics |
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Note continued: Mediating Hermeneutics -- 8. Virtue -- A Tale of Hermeneutical Virtues -- Why Virtue Hermeneutics Works -- 9.Community -- Community in the Congregations -- Further Christian Perspectives on Community -- Towards Hermeneutical Apprenticeship -- ̀How Do We Read?' Revisited -- Appendices -- A. Public Bible Settings -- B. Small Group Bible Settings -- C. Holder and Fellowship Congregants -- D. Holder and Fellowship Songs -- E. Mediator Influence Rankings -- F. Bible Problems for Interviewees |
| Summary |
Despite many churches claiming that the Bible is highly significant for their doctrine and practice, questions about how we read the Bible are rarely made explicit. Based on ethnographic research in English churches, Congregational Hermeneutics explores this dissonance and moves beyond descriptions to propose ways of enriching hermeneutical practices in congregations. Characterised as hermeneutical apprenticeship, this is not just a matter of learning certain skills, but of cultivating hermeneutical virtues such as faithfulness, community, humility, confidence and courage. These virtues are given substance through looking at four broad themes that emerge from the analysis of congregational hermeneutics - tradition, practices, epistemology and mediation. Concluding with what hermeneutical apprenticeship might look like in practice, this book is constructively theological about what churches actually do with the Bible, and will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 19, 2015) |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Hermeneutics.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013650
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Bible -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013718
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Bible fast |
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BIBLES -- General.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
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Hermeneutics
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Education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781409449904 |
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1409449904 |
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