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Many approaches for interpreting the Bible have been put forth in
recent years. All have their strengths--and their weaknesses. The
Act of Bible Reading combines the strengths of several of these
approaches into one volume which will enrich our reading of the
Bible. Gordon Fee and Elmer Dyck discuss history and canon,
respectively, as contexts for interpretation, highlighting the
importance of historical-grammatical interpretation within a
canonical setting for understanding biblical texts. J. I. Packer
explores the importance of theology, both as it informs and as it
safeguards Bible reading. Craig M. Gay proffers key insights from
sociology, especially the sociology of knowledge, as it cautions us
to ask not only what the text says, but who says it says that and
why should we believe what they are telling us it says. Facing the
challenges of modern secular hermeneutics from Heidigger and
Nietzsche to Derrida and Foucault, Loren Wilkinson counters the
postmodern reaction against truth. James Houston argues that the
aim of Bible reading must be godliness and not mere scholarship.
And Eugene Peterson then responds to the collection of insights as
a whole. For readers who want to take the next steps in
understanding the Bible for themselves, here is here is a
not-to-be-missed opportunity to benefit from the combined insight
of a distinguished group of teachers.
Augustinus (354-430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in
North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in
Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of
philosophical and psychological doubts in search of truth, joining
for a time the Manichaean society. He became a teacher of grammar
at Tagaste, and lived much under the influence of his mother and
his friend Alypius. About 383 he went to Rome and soon after to
Milan as a teacher of rhetoric, being now attracted by the
philosophy of the Sceptics and of the Neo-Platonists. His studies
of Paul's letters with Alypius and the preaching of Bishop Ambrose
led in 386 to his rejection of all sensual habits and to his famous
conversion from mixed beliefs to Christianity. He returned to
Tagaste and there founded a religious community. In 395 or 396 he
became Bishop of Hippo, and was henceforth engrossed with duties,
writing and controversy. He died at Hippo during the successful
siege by the Vandals.
From Augustine's large output the Loeb Classical Library offers
that great autobiography the "Confessions" (in two volumes); "On
the City of God" (seven volumes), which unfolds God's action in the
progress of the world's history, and propounds the superiority of
Christian beliefs over pagan in adversity; and a selection of
"Letters" which are important for the study of ecclesiastical
history and Augustine's relations with other theologians.
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