Scriptural Vitality
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Scriptural Figures and the Fringes of the New Testament Canon
Author: Kelsie G. Rodenbiker
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2025
The formation of the Christian biblical canon remains a contested and mysterious subject, complicated by the dating of ancient texts, disagreement among ancient writers, and questions of the authenticity (or not) of various scriptural works. The Catholic Epistles -- James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John, and Jude -- are a significant wrench in the gears of the process that formed the New Testament collection, not least because of issues like authorship and references to other Jewish and Christian scriptures. This book explores the use of characters in the Catholic letters originating from the Jewish and Christian scriptural pasts who serve as both exemplary models of behaviour and authorial mouthpieces. Such figures and their textual afterlives maintain links to both now-canonical works and noncanonical tradition.
The Sacred Universe
Author: Thomas Berry
language: en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date: 2009-09-16
“Dedicated readers of ecology, theology, or religious philosophy will want to savor each one [of these essays]” from the renowned environmental thinker (Library Journal). A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of species. In this book he makes a persuasive case for an interreligious dialogue that can better confront the environmental problems of the twenty-first century. These erudite and keenly sympathetic essays represent Berry’s best work, covering such issues as human beings’ modern alienation from nature and the possibilities of future, regenerative forms of religious experience. Asking that we create a new story of the universe and the emergence of the Earth within it, Berry resituates the human spirit within a sacred totality. “This book addresses how the history and diversity of world religions offer ways to engage with Earth; how it is necessary to connect with a spirituality that is Earth derived; how science can be in conversation with the religious sensibilities of wonder and awe; and how our relationship to the natural world is crucial to our spirituality. In the earliest essays, Berry sounds most optimistic and urges readers to reconcile modern impulses and technology with religious traditions.”—Publishers Weekly “Thomas Berry demonstrates in these papers the qualities he calls for: humanist vision and imagination.”—Resurgence
Do We Still Need Inspiration?
Author: Matthieu Richelle
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2023-11-20
The concept of inspiration is part and parcel of the theological tradition in several religious confessions, but it has largely receded to the background, if not vanished altogether, in the discussions of biblical scholars. The question "Do we still need inspiration?" might well reflect the perplexity of many exegetes today. Systematic theologians, for their part, often further their own reflections on the subject independently of developments in the field of exegesis, with the risk of remaining purely theoretical. Biblical research in the last decades has been marked by new insights about the nature of the biblical texts, stemming from the study of their inner plurality (insofar as they combine and sometimes intertwine conflicting theologies), of their textual fluidity, and of their reception. Can these new insights be integrated into a theological reflection on the notion of inspiration? These questions are often explicitly raised about the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, but they also prove increasingly relevant for Qur’ānic studies. This volume addresses them through contributions from exegetes of the Bible and of the Qur’an and systematic theologians.