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The Canonical Approach makes a detailed assessment of Brevard Childs' 'canonical approach' to biblical interpretation.
A careful analysis of Childs' work identifies a number of historical, hermeneutical, and theological issues that are central both to Childs' programme and to the wider methodological debate. These include the adequacy of the historical-critical tools, their relationship to the more recent, 'synchronic' approaches, the role of the interpreter's own presuppositions, the viability of working from a specific faith-commitment, and ways in which the ancient texts can 'speak' to the modern Church. After an incisive discussion of these questions it is suggested how Childs' programme can be set on a sounder methodological basis.
This book is particularly notable for its clarification of Childs' approach, and for its original solutions to a number of central methodological problems.
A careful analysis of Childs' work identifies a number of historical, hermeneutical, and theological issues that are central both to Childs' programme and to the wider methodological debate. These include the adequacy of the historical-critical tools, their relationship to the more recent, 'synchronic' approaches, the role of the interpreter's own presuppositions, the viability of working from a specific faith-commitment, and ways in which the ancient texts can 'speak' to the modern Church. After an incisive discussion of these questions it is suggested how Childs' programme can be set on a sounder methodological basis.
This book is particularly notable for its clarification of Childs' approach, and for its original solutions to a number of central methodological problems.
Price: $309.00
Pages: 382
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Biblical Interpretation Series
Publication Date:
01 September 1995
ISBN: 9789004101517
Format: Other
'...the illuminating account of Childs makes this a useful contribution to the debate.'
Walter Moberly, The Expository times, 1996.
Walter Moberly, The Expository times, 1996.
Paul R. Noble, Ph.D. (1992) in Old Testament Hermeneutics, University of Cambridge, is Part-Time Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Suffolk College, England. He has published several articles on biblical methodology and literary theory, and on the interpretation of Amos.