{"product_id":"hermeneutics-and-the-church-in-dialogue-with-augustine-paperback-softback-9780268020415","title":"Hermeneutics and the Church; In Dialogue with Augustine (Paperback \/ softback) 9780268020415","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHermeneutics and the Church\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIn Dialogue with Augustine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames A. Andrews (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780268020415\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 October 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.478 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a creative piece of work. James A. Andrews establishes the sermon as the essential paradigm with which to read and better grasp Augustine's hermeneutical approach, which oscillates between understanding a text and delivering what one has understood. This book will prove fruitful for a modern appropriation of Augustine's powerful hermeneutical ideas, which continue to have considerable impact in theology and other disciplines.\" —Karla Pollmann, University of St. Andrews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHermeneutics and the Church\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of wide learning and keen theological intelligence, moving easily between the history of early Christian thought, contemporary hermeneutics, and theological construction. Elegantly argued and full of well-observed detail, it will be read with profit by historians, exegetes, and theologians alike.\" —John Webster, King's College\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Not only does [Andrews] join scholars across centuries and disciplines, he respects the concerns of both the academy and the church. Rather than perpetuating the antagonism that has grown up between academicians and practitioners, he places them in a way that they can engage together as iron sharpening iron.\" —\u003ci\u003eComitatus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a very fine book. . . . The last few pages, in which Augustine locates Scripture in the context of the Eucharistic liturgy, are among the most powerful treatments of 'theological interpretation' of which I am aware.\" —\u003ci\u003eTheology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHermeneutics and the Church: In Dialogue with Augustine\u003c\/i\u003e contributes both to Augustine studies and to the emerging interdisciplinary discussion about theological interpretation of scripture. Andrews makes a convincing case that Augustine is working with an expanded, \u003ci\u003ea posteriori\u003c\/i\u003e theological hermeneutics that aims at both understanding and communication, respects authorial meaning, and guides readers to growth in faith and love.\" —Kevin Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Augustine's \u003ci\u003eDe doctrina christiana\u003c\/i\u003e is the supreme classic of Christian theological hermeneutics, far surpassing competitors such as Origen and Schleiermacher in its scope and significance. James Andrews ably shows how contemporary hermeneutical discussion can provide a new context for Augustine's distinctive voice and, conversely, how our current understanding and practice of scriptural interpretation can be enriched by returning to the patristic sources of the interpretive tradition.\" —Francis Watson, Durham University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This volume takes the form of a dialogue between Augustine and contemporary theology, with particular attention to Augustine's theoretical hermeneutics as found in \u003ci\u003eDe Doctrina Cristiana\u003c\/i\u003e, which is his theoretical reflection on the practice of interpretation.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew Testament Abstracts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHermeneutics and the Church\u003c\/i\u003e, James A. Andrews presents a close reading of \u003ci\u003eDe doctrina christiana\u003c\/i\u003e as a whole and places Augustine's text into dialogue with contemporary theological hermeneutics. The dialogical nature of the exercise allows Augustine to remain a living voice in contemporary debates about the use of theology in biblical interpretation. In particular, Andrews puts Augustine's hermeneutical treatise into dialogue with the theologians Werner Jeanrond and Stephen Fowl.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrews argues on the basis of \u003ci\u003eDe doctrina christiana\u003c\/i\u003e that the paradigm for theological interpretation is the sermon and that its end is to engender the double love of God and neighbor. With the sermon as the paradigm of interpretation, Hermeneutics and the Church offers practical conclusions for future work in historical theology and biblical interpretation. For Augustine scholars, Andrews offers a reading of \u003ci\u003eDe doctrina\u003c\/i\u003e that takes seriously the entirety of the work and allows Augustine to speak consistently through words written at the beginning and end of his bishopric. For theologians, this book provides a model of how to engage theologically with the past, and, more than that, it offers the actual fruits of such an engagement: suggestions for the discipline of theological hermeneutics and the practice of scriptural interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702553932056,"sku":"9780268020415","price":24.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hermeneutics-and-the-church-in-dialogue-with-augustine-paperback-softback-9780268020415","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}