Ad Litteram: How Augustine, Calvin, and Barth Read the "Plain Sense" of Genesis 1-3

, by Greene-McCreight, Kathryn

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ISBN: 9780820439921 | 0820439924
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/1999

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Preface

viii

(4)

Abbreviations

xii

Chapter One: "Plain Sense" in Christian Interpretation of Scripture

(31)

The Nature of the Problem

(18)

The Retention of the Old Testament

(2)

Christological Interpretation

(1)

Plain Sense and Ruled Reading

(2)

Authority for Religious Teaching and Practice

(2)

Extended Authority: Social Function of Plain Sense

(3)

Readers' Narrative Self-locating

(2)

Plain Sense and Textual Reference: Gospel Narratives about Jesus

(3)

Plain Sense and Plain Silence

(2)

The Present Study: Augustine, Calvin and Barth Read Genesis 1-3

(4)

Notes to Chapter One

(9)

Chapter Two: Augustine's Understanding of the Literal Sense of Scripture in De Genesi ad litteram

(63)

The Search for Literal Interpretation of Genesis 1-3

(17)

Augustine's Exegetical Principles

(5)

Literal vs. Allegorical

(9)

Sacred Text and Ruled Reading

(13)

The Function of the Rules of Faith and Charity

(8)

Prooftexting

(3)

Textual "Accommodation"

(2)

"Historicity," Textuality and Literal Sense

(11)

Historical Referentiality of the Text

(5)

Verbal Sense and Authorial Intention

(4)

Narrative Structure

(2)

Extra-Biblical "Narratives": Pagan Wisdom and the Interpreter's Reason

(7)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes to Chapter Two

(14)

Chapter Three: Calvin's Understanding of the Literal Sense in his Commentary on the First Book of Moses

(79)

Literal Sense and Ruled Reading

(12)

Humanist Aspects of Calvin's Literal Reading

107

(18)

Verbal Sense

107

(4)

Narrative Structure and Context

111

(7)

Authorial Intention

118

(2)

"Ad Fontes": the Role of Tradition

120

(5)

Constraints of Ruled Reading on Literal Sense

125

(23)

Historical Referentiality

125

(6)

Accommodation

131

(4)

Prooftexting

135

(3)

Interpreter's Common Sense

138

(3)

Apologetics, Doctrine and the Christian Life

141

(7)

Conclusion

148

(1)

Notes to Chapter Three

149

(25)

Chapter Four: Barth's Understanding of the Plain Sense in the Church Dogmatics 3.1

174

(67)

Macroexegesis: Witness to the Word

174

(32)

Textual Polyvalence and Witness to the Word

174

(4)

Historical Referentiality and Textual Genre

178

(9)

Saga vs. Myth

187

(3)

Narrative Structure

190

(10)

Secular Science

200

(3)

Modern Commentators and Historical Criticism

203

(3)

Microexegesis: Words

206

(15)

Verbal Meaning

206

(1)

Text and Author

207

(3)

Canonical Setting and Prooftext

210

(3)

Barth vs. Traditional Interpretation

213

(4)

Silences: What the Text Fails to Say

217

(4)

Literal vs. Non-Literal

221

(5)

Conclusion

226

(1)

Notes to Chapter Four

227

(14)

Chapter Five: `Sinewes Even in Thy Milke'

241

(12)

Notes to Chapter Five

251

(2)

Works Cited

253

(11)

Index of Scripture References

264

(4)

Index of Subjects

268

(3)

Index of Names

271

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Ad Litteram: How Augustine, Calvin, and Barth Read the "Plain Sense" of Genesis 1-3

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