Scripture: A Very Theological Proposal

Scripture: A Very Theological Proposal advances that the resources for reading Scripture, understanding its claims, and acting upon them will be found by looking to the life of the church and its doctrines. By reading Scripture with Stanley Hauerwas, P.T. Forsyth, John Webster, and John Howard Yoder amongst others, Paddison proposes a hermeneutic appropriate to reading Scripture both as divine address and the book of the church. The book positions itself by resisting accounts in which Scripture's relationship to God and its life within the church are understood competitively, as if the more we attend to one the less we are attending to the other. As a contribution to the growing interest in the theological interpretation of Scripture this book will be of interest to students of theology and ministers. Book jacket.

Angus Paddison is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Winchester, UK.