Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of "Great
Code," but each of these important texts is controversial as well
as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their
authors could not have anticipated on their own. In this book, one
of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of
the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of
constitutional interpretation. Jaroslav Pelikan compares the
methods by which the official interpreters of the Bible and the
Constitution--the Christian Church and the Supreme Court,
respectively--have approached the necessity of interpreting, and
reinterpreting, their important texts. In spite of obvious
differences, both texts require close, word-by-word exegesis, an
awareness of opinions that have gone before, and a willingness to
ask new questions of old codes, Pelikan observes. He probes for
answers to the question of what makes something authentically
"constitutional" or "biblical," and he demonstrates how an
understanding of either biblical interpretation or constitutional
interpretation can illuminate the other in important ways.
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