Description
Summary: | "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"--
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 339 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789004448544 9004448543 |
ISSN: | 1876-1518 ; |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Electronic resource, viewed: March 5, 2022. |