Models For Scripture
, by Goldingay, John
- ISBN: 9781894667418 | 1894667417
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/31/2004
John Goldingay is principal of St. John's Theological College in Nottingham, England, and a priest in the Church of England.
| Introduction: Scripture's Varied Forms | p. 1 |
| Categories for a Doctrine of Scripture | p. 1 |
| Models for Scripture | p. 7 |
| Reconsidering Models for Scripture | p. 12 |
| Scripture as Witnessing Tradition | p. 19 |
| Witness and Tradition | p. 21 |
| The Nature of Scriptural Faith and the Nature of Scripture | p. 21 |
| Biblical Narrative as Witness and Tradition | p. 25 |
| The Factuality Involved in Witness | p. 29 |
| As Witness Scripture Asks to Be Investigated Critically (Even If It Implies a Critique of Criticism) | p. 30 |
| Investigating the Witness of the Second Testament | p. 34 |
| Investigating the Witness of the First Testament | p. 39 |
| Living in Trust and Living with Ambiguity | p. 42 |
| As Witness Scripture Invites Us to Learn from the Events Themselves to Which It Points | p. 46 |
| The Interpretation Involved in Witness | p. 49 |
| The Gospels as Interpretative Witness | p. 49 |
| Witness and Tradition: Fact and Interpretation | p. 52 |
| The Theological Nature of the Witnessing Tradition's Interpretation | p. 58 |
| Witness in the Form of Story | p. 61 |
| History and Story: How Stories Work | p. 61 |
| The Place of "Fiction" in a Historical Story | p. 67 |
| The Witness of "Pure" Fiction | p. 71 |
| Scripture as a Whole as Witnessing Tradition | p. 77 |
| The Authoritative Canon as Witness | p. 78 |
| The Inspired Word as Witness | p. 78 |
| The Experienced Revelation as Witness | p. 80 |
| Scripture as Authoritative Canon | p. 83 |
| Authority in Scripture | p. 85 |
| Worshipping by Scripture and Living by Scripture: Psalm 119 | p. 87 |
| Worshipping by Scripture and Living by Scripture: The Example of Jesus (Matthew 4:1-11) | p. 89 |
| The Bible's Approach to Biblical Authority | p. 93 |
| Scripture as a Whole as Authoritative Canon: Narrative and Prophecy | p. 99 |
| "It Is Written" | p. 99 |
| Scripture and Canon | p. 102 |
| Biblical Narrative as Authoritative Canon | p. 108 |
| The Inspired Word as Authoritative Canon | p. 115 |
| Scripture as a Whole as Authoritative Canon: Norms for Christian Doctrine | p. 117 |
| The Crisis of Authority | p. 117 |
| Authority and Scripture | p. 121 |
| The Experienced Revelation as Authoritative Canon | p. 125 |
| The First Testament as Authoritative Canon for Jesus and the Second Testament Writers | p. 131 |
| The Development of a Canon of Jewish Scriptures | p. 138 |
| From the Beginnings to the Persian Period | p. 138 |
| Jewish Canons in the Greek and Roman Periods | p. 142 |
| Developments during the Christian Era | p. 145 |
| The Development of a Second Testament | p. 151 |
| The First Two Christian Centuries | p. 151 |
| The Crises of the Late Second Century | p. 155 |
| The Catholic Church's Response | p. 158 |
| A Canon of Second Testament Scriptures | p. 164 |
| The Bounds of the Canon | p. 168 |
| Which Books Belong in the First Testament? | p. 168 |
| Criteria for Inclusion: Canon, Prophets, and Apostles | p. 171 |
| The Determination and the Openness of the Canon | p. 177 |
| Scripture as Resource and Norm | p. 183 |
| Tradition | p. 183 |
| Reason and Secular Thought | p. 187 |
| Human Experience | p. 189 |
| Our Commitments | p. 194 |
| Scripture as Resource and Norm | p. 196 |
| Scripture as Inspired Word | p. 199 |
| The Words of God in Human Words | p. 201 |
| The Word of God at the Critical Moment: Jeremiah 36 | p. 201 |
| Prophecy as the Inspired Word of God | p. 204 |
| An Effective and Meaningful Word | p. 209 |
| The Word of God: Certain to Come About | p. 209 |
| The Inspired Word: Significant beyond Its Original Context | p. 215 |
| The Inspired Speaker of God's Word | p. 219 |
| Forms of Inspiration | p. 222 |
| Inspiration as God Using an Instrument | p. 223 |
| Inspiration as God Dictating to a Messenger | p. 227 |
| Inspiration as God Standing behind a Prophet's Own Words | p. 231 |
| Understanding the Inspiration of a Text | p. 237 |
| The Inspiration of Scripture in the Light of the Incarnation | p. 238 |
| The Inspiration of Scripture in the Light of the Spirit's Involvement in the Church | p. 241 |
| The Inspiration of Scripture in the Light of Creative Inspiration | p. 244 |
| The Inspiration of Scripture in the Light of the Nature of the Sacraments | p. 246 |
| The Inspiration of Scripture in the Light of God's Acts in History | p. 248 |
| Scripture as a Whole as Inspired Word | p. 252 |
| Extending the Model of Inspired Word of God: Its Application to Narrative | p. 252 |
| Authoritative Canon and Experienced Revelation as Inspired Word of God | p. 257 |
| Inspiration and Inerrancy | p. 261 |
| Attitudes to Factual Accuracy over the Centuries | p. 261 |
| The Nineteenth-Century Elaboration | p. 266 |
| Difficulties with Inerrancy and Approaches to Solving Them | p. 268 |
| Difficulties in Principle and Disadvantages in Practice | p. 273 |
| The God-Givenness of a Broadly Accurate Text | p. 279 |
| Scripture as Experienced Revelation | p. 285 |
| Revelation in Theology and in Scripture | p. 287 |
| Revelation as a Theological Theme and as a Scriptural Theme | p. 288 |
| Revelation in the Apocalypses | p. 292 |
| Revelation: Personal, Propositional, Historical, and Reasonable | p. 299 |
| Personal Revelation? | p. 299 |
| Propositional Revelation? | p. 302 |
| Revelation in History? | p. 304 |
| Revelation and Reason | p. 311 |
| The Truth of Revelation | p. 314 |
| The Place of Imagery in Scripture | p. 314 |
| The Logic of Scripture's Language about God | p. 319 |
| The Truth of Daniel 10-12 | p. 322 |
| The Symbolism of Patriarchy | p. 326 |
| Scripture as as a Whole as Divine Revelation | p. 329 |
| Revelation Elsewhere in Scripture | p. 329 |
| Diversity and Unity in the Scriptural Revelation | p. 332 |
| Theological Inerrancy | p. 338 |
| Progressive Revelation and Divine Condescension | p. 341 |
| The Clarity of the Scriptural Revelation | p. 345 |
| Human Experience and Theological Reflection in the Two Testaments | p. 348 |
| Human Experience in Scripture | p. 348 |
| The Experience of Israel and Christian Experience | p. 351 |
| Theological Reflection and the Christ Event | p. 355 |
| Scripture as a Manual of Theological Reflection | p. 360 |
| The Reflective Nature of Scripture as a Whole | p. 360 |
| Modes of Theological Reflection in Scripture | p. 364 |
| Abbreviations | p. 372 |
| Bibliography | p. 374 |
| Index of Authors | p. 404 |
| Index of Scriptural and Other Ancient Jewish and Christian Writings | p. 412 |
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