Global Jesus versus National Jesus: The Political Hermeneutics of Resurrection [Pt. II]
[Part I was published Monday] I N. T. Wright on Paul’s Resurrection Theology: Global or National? Nicholas Thomas Wright, the former Anglican bishop of Durham,…
Hermeneutics
Global Jesus versus National Jesus: The Political Hermeneutics of Resurrection [Pt. I]
I Introduction Biblical interpretation is, if not the only, certainly the core task of theological hermeneutics. Unfortunately, religious conflict and biblical interpretation have always been…
Metanarrative Collapse? Whether the Christian Cosmology Invented by St. Augustine of Hippo Has Stood the Test of Time [Pt. II]
[See Part I of this essay here] IV Augustine’s Hellenistic Hermeneutic Augustine’s interpretation of the Biblical metanarrative portrays both the creation and the end of…
Metanarrative Collapse? Whether the Christian Cosmology Invented by St. Augustine of Hippo Has Stood the Test of Time [Pt. I]
I Introduction From its beginnings in the first century A.D. Christianity anchored its cosmology in the Bible. But what is the Bible? As a book…