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The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture (Hardcover)
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The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture (Hardcover)
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In 1517, Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of
Wittenberg's castle church. Luther's seemingly inconsequential act
ultimately launched the Reformation, a movement that
forevertransformed both the Church and Western culture. The
repositioning of the Bible as beginning, middle, and end of
Christian faith was crucial to the Reformation. Two words alone
captured this emphasis on the Bible's divine inspiration, its
abiding authority, and its clarity, efficacy, and sufficiency: sola
scriptura . In the five centuries since the Reformation, the
confidence Luther and the Reformers placed in the Bible has slowly
eroded. Enlightened modernity came to treat the Bible like any
other text, subjecting it to a near endless array of
historical-critical methods derived from the sciences and
philosophy. The result is that in many quarters of Protestantism
today the Bible as word has ceased to be the Word. In The
Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture , Iain Provan aims
to restore a Reformation-like confidence in the Bible by recovering
a Reformation-like reading strategy. To accomplish these aims
Provan first acknowledges the value in the Church's precritical
appropriation of the Bible and, then, in a chastened use of modern
and postmodern critical methods. But Provan resolutely returns to
the Reformers' affirmation of the centrality of the literal sense
of the text, in the Bible's original languages, for a right-minded
biblical interpretation. In the end the volume shows that it is
possible to arrive at an approach to biblical interpretation for
the twenty-first century that does not simply replicate the
Protestant hermeneutics of the sixteenth, but stands in fundamental
continuity with them. Such lavish attention to, and importance
placed upon, a seriously literal interpretation of Scripture is
appropriate to the Christian confession of the word as Wordathe one
God's Word for the one world.
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