The Biblical Kierkegaard: Reading by the Rule of Faith

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Mercer 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

A KIERKEGAARDIAN SOLA SCRIPTURA
13
KIERKEGAARD AND THE RULE OF FAITH IMAGINING SCRIPTURE
43
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
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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.
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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.

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