Canons In Conflict

Canons in Conflict

In this new study, James Brenneman confronts the issue of conflicting canons with full force, incorporating insights gained from both literary and biblical disciplines on the question of canon. He begins with an illuminating tour through contemporary literary theory from Hans Robert Jauss to Stanley Fish, and current discussions in theology about the canon. He goes on to a consideration of true and false prophesy, with a detailed examination of the three apparently conflicting versions of the Old Testament "swords into plowshares" prophesy, as found in Isaiah 2:2-4,5; Joel 4:9-12 (Eng. 3:9-12); and Micah 4:1-5. Suggesting that the dynamics controlling the process for negotiating between contradictory readings of prophetic texts are the same as those at work in adjudicating between canons in conflict, Brenneman concludes by pointing the way towards an integrative approach appropriate to the question of canon and authority in a "post-modern" pluralistic context.

Canons in Conflict

Brenneman confronts the contemporary issue of conflicting canons, incorporating insights gained from both literary and biblical disciplines to reach an integrative resolution of authority and canon in a pluralistic context.

The Spiritual Conflict and Conquest ... Edited, with Preface and Notes, by Canon Vaughan ... Reprinted from the ... Translation of 1652