The Biblical Kierkegaard: Reading by the Rule of FaithMercer University Press, 1997 - 232 pages Placing Kierkegaard firmly within the Augustinian tradition of reading Scripture according to the Rules of faith and love, Polk brings Kierkegaard's biblical hermeneutics into conversation with current postliberal narrative theology, speech-act theory, canon-contextual criticism, reader-response criticism, feminist theology, and political theology. |
Contents
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HERMENEUTIC SCANDAL HIDING SIN | 85 |
HEART ENOUGH TO BE CONFIDENT DOUBT RECEPTIVITY AND THE EPISTLE OF JAMES | 113 |
THE PRAISE OF JOB EDIFYING DISCOURSE AGAINST THEODICY | 147 |
POSTSCRIPT THE CANONICAL IMAGINATION | 195 |
Bibliography | 205 |
Index of Names and Subjects | 211 |
Index of Scriptural Citations | 223 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic apostolic authority become Bible Bible's biblical text blessing Book of Job canonical context chapter Childs's Christ Christian church concept confession course criticism critique curse dialectic divine doctrine doubt doxological Edifying Discourses emphasis entails Epistle of James ethical exegesis exegetical explication fact Fideism focus text Garrett Green God's Word gospel Gouwens Harper hear heart hermeneutic Hides the Multiplicity historical Hong human imaginative construal interpretation interpretive community intratextuality Irenaeus James James's Jesus Job's Kelsey Kermode Kierkegaard says language game literal sense logic Love Hides maieutic means metaphor mirror mitigating explanation multiplicity of sins narrative neighbor normative offense one's oneself ordeal parable paradigm perfect gift Peter practice praise Princeton question readers reading reference relation religious repetition Rule of faith scripture scripture's sola scriptura Søren Kierkegaard sorrow speak Stanley Hauerwas story takes Testament theodicy theological trans understanding University Press vision Walter Lowrie Yahweh
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Page 24 - ... 9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
Page 100 - And there they stood, the only pair, as it seemed, who were yet hesitating on the verge of wickedness in this dark world. A basin was hollowed, naturally, in the rock. Did it contain water, reddened by the lurid light? or was it blood? or, perchance, a liquid flame?
Page 125 - I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 100 - By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood-spot Far more than this. It shall be yours to penetrate, in every bosom, the deep mystery of sin...
Page 23 - But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred. 9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Page 133 - Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am tempted by God'; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Page 134 - Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep : let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Page 23 - AND he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea ; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables...
Page 24 - To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.