Rethinking Biblical Literacy
Rethinking Biblical Literacy

Author: Katie B. Edwards

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0567521087

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What do people know about the Bible, and how much do they know? The media often discusses the worrying 'decline' in biblical literacy, but what does this really mean, and how can we measure this assumed 'decline'? How can we go about teaching 'biblical literacy', and about teaching teachers how to teach it? Rethinking Biblical Literacy explores the question of biblical literacy, examining the Bible's use, influence and impact in advertising, street art, poetry, popular erotic literature, Irish and UK secondary education, stand-up comedy and The Simpsons TV series to display the different types of literacy and knowledge of the Bible. Katie B. Edwards brings together several specialists in the cultural use, impact and influence of the Bible to examine the contested nature of biblical literacy and to explore the variety of ways of 'knowing' about the Bible. The picture created is one of a broad range and at times surprising depth of knowledge about what remains arguably the most influential collection of texts ever to be published.

Rethinking Women's Ministry: Biblical, Practical Tools for Cultivating a Flourishing Community
Rethinking Women's Ministry: Biblical, Practical Tools for Cultivating a Flourishing Community

Author: Cyndee Ownbey

Publisher: Onb Press

Published: 2019-10-25

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9781733471008

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Rethinking Women's Ministry invites leaders to take a fresh look at their women's ministry framework through the lens of Scripture and prayer. Cyndee tackles the common obstacles women's ministry leaders face: generational gaps, unwilling mentors, biblical illiteracy, cliques, social media, sacred cows, and more!

The Living Word of God
The Living Word of God

Author: Ben Witherington (III)

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1602580170

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A provocative examination of the Bible in Christian tradition and contemporary culture

Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts
Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts

Author: Mark Daniel Carroll R.

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2000-02-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0567442217

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This volume brings together ten essays on the various contexts for texts that social-scientific approaches invoke. These contexts are: the cultural values that inform the writers of texts, the relationship between the text and the reader or community of readers, and the production of texts themselves as social artifacts. In the first, predominantly theoretical, section of the book, John Rogerson applies the perspective of Adorno to the reading of biblical texts; Mark Brett advocates methodological pluralism and deconstructs ethnicity in Genesis; and Gerald West explores the 'graininess' of texts. The second part contains both theory and application: Jonathan Dyck draws a 'map of ideology' for biblical critics and then applies an ideological critical analysis to Ezra 2. M. Daniel Carroll R. reexamines 'popular religion' and uses Amos as a test case; Stanley Porter considers dialect and register in the Greek of the New Testament, then applies it to Mark's Gospel. This is an original as well as wide-ranging exploration of important social-scientific issues and their application to a range of biblical materials.

Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers
Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers

Author: Daniel L. Dreisbach

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0199987955

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No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Shedding new light on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Daniel Dreisbach analyzes the founders' diverse use of scripture, ranging from the literary to the theological. He shows that they looked to the Bible for insights on human nature, civic virtue, political authority, and the rights and duties of citizens, as well as for political and legal models to emulate. They quoted scripture to authorize civil resistance, to invoke divine blessings for righteous nations, and to provide the language of liberty that would be appropriated by patriotic Americans. Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers broaches the perennial question of whether the American founding was, to some extent, informed by religious--specifically Christian--ideas. In the sense that the founding generation were members of a biblically literate society that placed the Bible at the center of culture and discourse, the answer to that question is clearly "yes." Ignoring the Bible's influence on the founders, Dreisbach warns, produces a distorted image of the American political experiment, and of the concept of self-government on which America is built.

Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility
Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility

Author: G. Ortiz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-05-12

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1403982996

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By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing and provocative responses to well-established literary and critical theories.

All People, All Times
All People, All Times

Author: Jeffery S. Stevenson

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1607915391

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All People, All Times: Rethinking Biblical Authority in Churches of Christ explores the assumptions traditionally held in a cappella Churches of Christ regarding how one knows what in Scripture is binding on all people at all times. The development of the tripartite model for determining Bible authority (i.e., command, example and implication) is examined and critiqued. While many in Churches of Christ advocate abandoning the model altogether, others refuse to see its limitations in a postmodern culture. All People, All Times offers a hermeneutical approach (The Transformational Restoration Hermeneutic or TRH) that sharpens the tripartite method by providing a biblically based grid to more accurately discern Scripture's emphases. As well, it introduces a sorely needed means for the formational use of Scripture. In short, the TRH recognizes not only the need to take Scripture seriously when it speaks authoritatively regarding external or doctrinal necessities, but also when it speaks to the spiritual, moral and relational priorities stressed in our postmodern era. It is hoped the TRH can provide a hermeneutical bridge between the widening streams of a fellowship historically devoted to speaking where the Bible speaks. For the last 18 of his 32 years in preaching, Jeffery S. Stevenson has served as the Preaching Minister for the Church of Christ at Louisville, Ohio and the Director of Second Wind Christian Counseling Ministries. Jeff holds degrees from Freed-Hardeman University (Bible), the University of Akron (Marriage and Family Therapy) and a Doctorate from Ashland (Ohio) Theological Seminary. Jeff has written on topics such as hermeneutics and biblical application in the Restoration Movement, evangelism and Christian counseling. He has published articles in the Gospel Advocate, Christian Standard and Restoration Quarterly. Jeff and his wife Tonnie have three grown daughters-Micah, Meghann and Mallory. Jeff's likes reading, walking, cycling and model railroading.

The Marks of Scripture
The Marks of Scripture

Author: Daniel Castelo

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1493416758

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This volume written by a theologian and a biblical scholar offers a fresh model for understanding Scripture as God's Word. The authors work out the four Nicene marks of the church--one, holy, catholic, and apostolic--as marks of Scripture, offering a new way of thinking about the Bible that bridges theology and interpretation. Their ecclesial analogy invites us to think of Scripture in similar terms to how we think of the church, countering the incarnational model propagated by Peter Enns and others.

Biblical Literacy Made Easy
Biblical Literacy Made Easy

Author: Brian Singer-Towns

Publisher: Saint Mary's Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 088489956X

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A guide for teaching youth to become knowledgeable and comfortable using the Bible, know and understand the biblical story of salvation, and understand how to interpret Bible books and passages in their proper contexts.

Reading the Bible outside the Church
Reading the Bible outside the Church

Author: David G. Ford

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2018-07-12

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1532636822

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In many places in the Western world, churchgoing is in decline and it cannot be assumed that people have a good grasp of the Bible's content. In this evolving situation, how would "the person on the street" read the Bible? Reading the Bible Outside the Church begins to answer this question. David Ford spent ten months at a chemical industrial plant providing non-churchgoing men with the opportunity to read and respond to five different biblical texts. Using an in-depth qualitative methodology, he charts how their prior experiences of religion, sense of (non)religious identity, attitudes towards the Bible, and beliefs about the Bible all shaped the readings that occurred.