Figured Out

All of our attempts to find the historical backgrounds to texts have led us to believe that we have "figured out" the Bible. Steering a course between modernity's obsession with historical readings and fundamentalism's compulsion for ahistorical readings, Christopher Seitz recovers a figural/typological approach to both the Old and New Testament that shapes a theological understanding of Scripture.Figured Outexamines the loss of figural assumptions and models another way forward.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

x

Part One: Introduction

Introduction

3

(10)

Part Two: Christian Scripture, Figured Out

Scripture Becomes Religion(s): The Theological Crisis of Serious Biblical Interpretation in the Twentieth Century

13

(22)

Two Testaments and the Failure of One Tradition-History

35

(14)

Scripture and a Three-Legged Stool: Is There a Coherent Account of the Authority of Scripture for Anglicans after Lambeth 1998?

49

(20)

Scripture and Trinity: ``The Virginia Report''

69

(12)

Bait and Switch: Rite I in American Book of Common Prayer Revision

81

(10)

Part Three: Two Testaments, One Scripture, One God

Booked Up: Ending John and Ending Jessus

91

(12)

Of Mortal Appearance: Earthy Jessus and Isaiah as a Type of Christian Scripture

103

(14)

Dispirited: Scripture as Rule of Faith and Recent Misuse of the Council of Jerusalem: Text, Spirit, and Word to Culture

117

(14)

Handing Over the Name: Christian Reflection on the Divine Name YHWH

131

(14)

The Old Testament, Mission, and Christian Scripture

145

(14)

Prayer in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible

159

(18)

``Our Help Is in the Name of the LORD, the Maker of Heaven and Earth'': Scripture and Creed in Ecumenical Trust

177

(16)

Part Four: Conclusion

Conclusion

193

(6)

Appendix

199

(4)

Notes

203

(18)

Index

221

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