Learning the Language of Scripture : Origen, Wisdom, and the Logic of Interpretation (Studies in Systematic Theology)

James, Mark Randall

Brill（2021/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 342 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004448537
• DDC分類 223.206

Full Description

In Learning the Language of Scripture, Mark Randall James offers a new account of theological interpretation as a sapiential practice of learning the language of Scripture, drawing on recently discovered Homilies on the Psalms by the influential early theologian Origen of Alexandria (2nd-3rd c. C.E). Widely regarded as one of the most arbitrary interpreters, James shows that Origen's appearance of arbitrariness is a result of the modern tendency to neglect the role of wisdom in scriptural interpretation. James demonstrates that Origen offers a compelling model of a Christian pragmatism in which learning and correcting linguistic practice is a site of the transformative pedagogy of the divine Logos.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

 1 The Problem of Hermeneutic Arbitrariness

 2 Origen and Arbitrariness

 3 Method: Descriptive Logic

 4 Learning the Language of Scripture

1 Origen and Stoic Logic

 1 Stoic Philosophy of Language

 2 Origen on Language and Logic

 3 Conclusion

2 From Lexis to Logos

 1 The Pedagogy of the Logos

 2 Elements of the Movement from Lexis to Logos

 3 Conclusion

3 The Pragmatics of Scriptural Utterances

 1 Deixis

 2 Implicature

 3 Conclusion

4 The Grammar of Scriptural Language

 1 Inquiry and Vagueness

 2 Habits of Scripture

 3 Invention

 4 Conclusion

5 The Deification of Discourse

 1 Bold Speech

 2 Parrhesia and Deification

 3 Conclusion

6 Origenism as Pragmatism: A Sketch of a Sapiential Hermeneutic

 1 Wisdom

 2 Scripture and Philosophy

 3 Sapiential Interpretation

 4 Towards a Sapiential Theology of Scripture

Works Cited

Index of Citations

Index of Names and Subjects