The Four Senses of ScriptureRecovering the Church's Classical Approach to Biblical Interpretation For nearly 1,700 years, the church read Scripture through four interwoven lenses literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical known as the quadriga. Modern biblical hermeneutics has largely set this tradition aside. In The Four Senses of Scripture, Patrick Schreiner argues the church hasn't moved beyond the ancient approach so much as it has lost something essential. Schreiner
a foremost interpreter of the theologies of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Acclaimed by leading Catholic scholars and popular Bible teachers
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Hans Urs von Balthasar is widely recognized as perhaps the greatest Catholic theologian of the twentieth century
"is the science and art of Biblical interpretation
This volume launches the series Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality
As the contributors present their views and respond to each of the other views
The book suggests that Christian theism can explain such things as the elegance of math
and reflects on issues that arose during that period
While our faith calls us to Christian unity
We live in a world of oppositional relationships and increasing in-group/out-group divisions
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