What sort of book is scripture?

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Thoughts toward reading scripture as Christians, and not only as historians 1. Hans Frei I am persuaded that historical inquiry is a useful and necessary procedure but that theological reading is reading of the text, and not the reading of a source, which is how historians read it. from [I’ve lost track of the source, […]

John Webster on theological interpretation

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John Webster on the theological interpretation of scripture The task of biblical interpretation is a function of the nature of scripture; the nature of Scripture is a function of its appointment as herald of the self-communicative presence of the risen one. […] Proposals about “theological interpretation” of the Bible commonly lack an ontology of scripture. […]

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What sort of book is scripture?

John Webster on theological interpretation