Full Description
Making Love with Scripture offers an accessible way of thinking about scriptural interpretation, showing how the destabilization of the text can open us up to the Iiberative work of God's Spirit. It also shows how such a destabilization neither obviates deep evangelical commitments nor renders the text meaningless and ineffectual. It posits a mode of understanding the Word of God revealed in Scripture that melds what is best and life-giving from both the evangelical and mainline traditions. Making Love with Scripture is written for those who reject the dichotomy between evangelical hermeneutics that affirm the importance of Scripture for Christian faith and practice and mainline hermeneutics that diminish or ignore the Bible's significance in favor of acts of justice in the world. It addresses those of us who seek a way toward the liberation of the created order out of systems of oppression and marginalization while at the same time affirming the agency of the Word in and through the biblical witness.
Contents
IntroductionShake 'n Bake: Reading Scripture with Ricky Bobby; Part I: Oppa Gangnam Style: The Text as Rave: 2. How to Get Away with Murder: The Death of the Author; 3. Beware the Kragle: The World of Deconstruction; 4. May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor: The Hunger Games of (Biblical) Interpretation; Part II: Fifty Shades of Grey (Matter): 5. Smeagol Knows the Way: Liberation Theologies of Scripture; 6. Don't Win the Game. Change It: Radical Theologies of Scripture; 7. 99 Problems but the Text Ain't One: Deconstruction in Action; Part III: This is How We Do It: Reading the Bible Today: 8. Selflessness and Bravery Aren't All That Different: Divestment and Boldness before the Word; 9. What Does the Fox Say? Listening to the Word; 10. You Can't Handle the Truth: Proclaiming the Saturated Word.
