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Captive to the Word of God
Engaging the Scriptures for Contemporary Theological Reflection
Miroslav Volf
In this book eminent systematic theologian Miroslav Volf interprets texts of the
Christian Scriptures and invites others to delve with him into the inexhaustible
well of God’s self-revelation for the sake of humanity’s integral salvation. Whatever
Volf writes — and these chapters are no exception — is penetrating and
thought-provoking.
“I read the Bible as a sacred text and a witness to Jesus Christ; a site of God’s self-revelation;
a text from the past through which God addresses all humanity and each human being
today; a text that has an overarching unity yet is internally teaming with rich diversity; a
text that encodes meanings and refracts them in multiple ways; a text we should approach
with trust and critical judgment as well as engage with receptivity and imagination; a text
that defines Christian identity yet speaks to people beyond the boundaries of Christian
communities.”
— from the introduction
Miroslav Volf is Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Henry B.
Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. His other books
include The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World and Against the
Tide: Love in a Time of Petty Dreams and Persisting Enmities.
Biblical Theology
October / 978-0-8028-6590-8
6″ × 9″ paperback
176 pages / $18.00 [£11.99]
Hermeneutics as a Theory of Understanding
Volume 1
Petr Pokorný
Translated by Anna Bryson-Gustová
Foreword by James H. Charlesworth
In this primer on hermeneutics Petr Pokorný takes up basic issues in understanding,
from language in general to the interpretation of the Bible.
While Hermeneutics as a Theory of Understanding deals with most of the problems
of hermeneutics and their role in society and impact in history, the book’s main
aim is not to introduce new methodologies or to investigate the character of
human understanding by new probes into literary or historical documents.
Instead, Pokorný’s principal intent is to define the philosophical and theological
premises of individual projects of understanding — their interrelations, meaning,
and function in interpretation, especially that of ancient texts such as the Bible.
Petr Pokorný is director of the Center for Biblical Studies, Charles University
and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. His other books include The Genesis
of Christology and Jesus Research.
Hermeneutics
November / 978-0-8028-2721-0
6″ × 9″ paperback
224 pages / $30.00 [£19.99]
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