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The Bible in the Contemporary World: Exploring texts and contexts - then and now

By Richard Bauckham

Book information

Publisher
SPCK
Year
2016
ISBN
9780281074853, 0281074852
Google Books ID
2ki5CwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
265 kB (271423 bytes)
Pages
243\0
Time added
2024-06-12 04:35:07

Description

A crucial responsibility for Christian interpreters of Scripture today, Richard Bauckham insists, is to seek to understand our contemporary context and to explore the Bible's relevance to it in ways that reflect serious critical engagement with that context. In The Bible in the Contemporary World Bauckham models how this task can be carried out. Bauckham calls for our reading of Scripture to lead us into increased engagement with the important issues of today's world, including globalization, environmental degradation, and widespread poverty. He works to bring biblical texts into relationship with these contemporary realities by means of the Bible's metanarrative of God and the world, in which God's purpose takes effect in the salvation and fulfilment of the world as his cherished creation.

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