The Bible and Spirituality: Exploratory Essays in Reading Scripture Spiritually
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Overview
The essays in this volume aim to contribute to the newly developing academic subject of biblical spirituality. It is prompted by the belief that, although the Christian tradition has always nurtured an emphasis on spirituality rooted in the Bible and its interpretation, few biblical scholars, until recently, have pursued their work by making connections with either this religious tradition or present-day interest in the broader phenomenon of spirituality. Spiritual interpretation has overlaps with theological interpretation but is distinctive because of its focus on the wisdom of lived experience and practice. The essays therefore attempt, from within the context of the academy, responsible readings of Scripture that have as a major focus the study of how particular texts might contribute to a spirituality in which individual and communal flourishing is a major feature.
The essays began as papers produced for an international symposium on the Bible and Spirituality in May 2012, hosted by the Centre for the Study of the Bible and Spirituality in the School of Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire.
- Explores how particular biblical texts contribute to spirituality
- Examines the role of emotion and joy in spirituality
- Provides dialogue between biblical perspectives on spirituality
- Perpetual War: The Case of Amalek - Stephen B. Chapman
- “Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?”: (Job 1–2, 28) - R. Walter L. Moberly
- Theology in the Second Person: Job’s Indexical Spirituality - Susannah Ticciati
- Spiritual Formation in the Psalms - J. Gordon McConville
- Singing for the Peace of Jerusalem: Songs of Zion in the Twenty-First Century - Ellen F. Davis
- Catalyzing Compassion: Jeremiah? - Barbara Green
- “I Perceived in the Books”: The Portrait of Daniel as a Spiritual Student of Scripture - Richard S. Brigg
- Biblical Spirituality: Text and Transformation - Sandra M. Schneiders
- The This-Worldliness of the New Testament’s Otherworldly Spirituality - Michael J. Gorman
- Spirituality and the Emotions in Early Christianity: The Case of Joy - Stephen C. Barton
- Love in the Letter to the Galatians - Pieter G. R. de Villiers
- The Spiritual Wisdom of Colossians in the Context of GraecoRoman Spiritualities - Andrew T. Lincoln
- 2 Timothy 3:10–17 and a Spirituality of Persecution - Lloyd K. Pietersen
- Stephen C. Barton
- Richard S. Briggs
- Stephen B. Chapman
- Ellen F. Davis
- Michael J. Gorman
- Barbara Green
- Andrew T. Lincoln
- J. Gordon McConville
- R. Walter L. Moberly
- Lloyd K. Pietersen
- Sandra M. Schneiders
- Susannah Ticciati
- Pieter G. R. de Villiers
What a fascinating, creative, wide-ranging, thoughtful, thought-provoking collection! It repays careful, slow reading.
—John Goldingay
In The Bible and Spirituality we find responsible exegesis with an eye focused on the spiritual dimension of reading and experiencing the biblical text. This book sets the trajectory for an emerging hermeneutic that reunites the oft-estranged emphases on Spirit and Word within biblical reading communities.
—Mark J. Boda
- Title: The Bible and Spirituality: Exploratory Essays in Reading Scripture Spiritually
- Editor: Andrew T. Lincoln, Gordon McConville, Lloyd K. Pietersen
- Publisher: Wipf & Stock
- Publication Date: 2013
- Pages: 314
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Biblical Interpretation
Andrew T. Lincoln is Portland Professor of New Testament, University of Gloucestershire, UK.
J. Gordon McConville is Professor of Old Testament Theology, University of Gloucestershire, UK.
Lloyd K. Pietersen is Visiting Research Fellow at Newman University and author of The Polemic of the Pastorals (2004).