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Applying scriptural insight to contemporary issues is one of the most important, yet most difficult, tasks that the church faces. The Bible, though written long ago, can speak authoritatively to contemporary ethical, doctrinal, and practical issues. Respected author I. Howard Marshall offers guidance for this perennial task in Beyond the Bible. Using a "principled approach," Marshall moves from Scripture itself to contemporary understanding and application of Scripture. He examines how principles can be established from Scripture, whether explicitly or implicitly, and explores how the continuing development of insight can provide us with guidelines for the ongoing task of developing and applying Christian theology. Responses from Kevin Vanhoozer and Stanley Porter are included.Students and scholars of the Bible and theology will be interested in this latest work from I. Howard Marshall, and it offers an accessible approach to a perennial topic of concern that pastors, church leaders, and interested laity will appreciate.Beyond the Bible is the first book of the Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology series. Produced in partnership with Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, this series gathers leading authorities to succinctly assess the major issues faced by the twenty-first century church and present their findings in a way that is rewarding to scholars yet accessible to students, pastors and laity. Readers will gain a fresh understanding of important issues that will enable them to take part meaningfully in discussion and debate. Series editors are Craig A. Evans and Lee Martin McDonald. Forthcoming series volumes will include contributions from J. D. G. Dunn, John J. Collins, and Craig Evans.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 juillet 2004
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441206633
Langue	English

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© 2004 by I. Howard Marshall
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“The disciplined study of the Bible in its original languages and historical context is an enterprise in which evangelicals have taken a not insignificant part. Here one of their most distinguished practitioners questions how researching the historical meaning can elucidate the Word of God for us today and generates an inner-evangelical debate about identifying the biblical principles on the basis of which this ‘leap’ might be performed. It is the emphasis on ‘biblical principles’ that reveals the evangelical slant given to this hermeneutical discussion. Yet this is a book which proves that, whatever our Christian confession, we can all benefit from overhearing one another’s conversations.”
Frances Young, University of Birmingham
“The apostle Paul told us ‘not to go beyond the things that are written.’ So what should we make of an evangelical biblical scholar who goes ‘beyond the Bible’? Marshall, the scholar in question, wants to build a bridge from the Bible to its present-day application and, more especially, to make the bridge itself biblical. Does he succeed? His respondents, Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Stanley E. Porter, inspect the bridge for weak spots. Is it biblical, for example, to dilute or dump one biblical message for the sake of another because the first one say, divine judgment as expressed in horrific images may seem disagreeable with more loving parts of the Bible and does in fact violate popularly accepted moral standards in our civilized world? Do these standards incline us to set one part of the Bible against another and prejudice one part over the other? Is it even possible to avoid such prejudicial treatments? Read, watch these friends spar with each other, and decide for yourselves. The questions are fundamental, and our answers to them will to a significant extent determine the future of evangelical Christianity.”
Robert H. Gundry, Westmont College
Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology
Craig A. Evans and Lee Martin McDonald, General Editors
T he last two decades have witnessed dramatic developments in biblical and theological study. Full-time academics can scarcely keep up with fresh discoveries, recently published primary texts, ongoing archaeological work, new exegetical proposals, experiments in methods and hermeneutics, and innovative theological syntheses. For students and nonspecialists these developments are confusing and daunting. What has been needed is a series of succinct studies that assess these issues and present their findings in a way that students, pastors, laity, and nonspecialists will find accessible and rewarding. Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology, sponsored by Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and in conjunction with the college’s Hayward Lectureship, constitutes such a series.
The Hayward Lectureship has brought to Acadia many distinguished scholars of Bible and theology, such as Sir Robin Barbour, John Bright, Leander Keck, Helmut Koester, Richard Longenecker, Martin Marty, Jaroslav Pelikan, Ian Rennie, James Sanders, and Eduard Schweizer. Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology reflect this rich heritage.
These studies are designed to guide readers through the ever more complicated maze of critical, interpretative, and theological discussion taking place today. But these studies are not introductory in nature; nor are they mere surveys. Written by leading authorities in the field, Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology offer critical assessments of the major issues that the church faces in the twenty-first century. Readers will gain the requisite orientation and fresh understanding of the important issues that will enable them to take part meaningfully in discussion and debate.
Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Endorsements
Series Page
Preface
1. Evangelicals and Hermeneutics
2. The Development of Doctrine
3. The Search for Biblical Principles
4. Into the Great “Beyond”: A Theologian’s Response to the Marshall Plan Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
5. Hermeneutics, Biblical Interpretation, and Theology: Hunch, Holy Spirit, or Hard Work? Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College
Notes
Scripture Index
Subject Index
Preface
A t a time when academic books are getting longer and longer and people have less and less time to read them, there may be a welcome for this comparatively short one that aims to set out an agenda for evangelical biblical scholarship.
The genesis of it lay in an invitation to me to give the annual lecture of the Institute for Biblical Research (IBR) at its annual meeting in Toronto in November 2002, and here I wish to express my thanks to Robert Gundry and the program committee for giving me that opportunity. One of the questions that was in my mind at the time of receiving the invitation was the impasse that has developed between scholars who come to different conclusions regarding issues such as the place of women in marriage and in ministry on the basis of different understandings of how the scriptural teaching, which they unite in accepting as authoritative, is to function today. Could there be any way of trying to understand what goes on in biblical interpretation and to see if there can be a principled way of moving from the ancient, authoritative text to its modern application? Greatly daring, I accepted the invitation and suggested the topic without being at all clear as to how it might be developed.
Then two further things happened. One was an invitation to write a chapter for a book to be entitled The Futures of Evangelicalism on “evangelicalism and biblical interpretation,” setting out where we are at present and what ought to be our agenda for the future. The other was the invitation to deliver the series of three Hayward Lectures at Acadia Divinity College that came from Lee McDonald and Craig Evans, and again I wish to express my thanks to them and their colleagues and students both for the invitation and for the gracious reception and generous hospitality that I enjoyed in Wolfville. It seemed to me that the material that necessarily had to be given in a highly condensed form in the IBR lecture could helpfully be expanded for the Hayward Lectures, and also that some of the chapter for The Futures of Evangelicalism could be reproduced in this context as a lead-in to the topic, since the thesis of that chapter is quite simply that while we must continue to work at other aspects of biblical interpretation, the problem of how we are to get from the Bible to the church and the world today is the central task to which we must devote ourselves in the immediate future.
Craig Evans made the helpful suggestion that it would be good to have some kind of response to the lectures and took advantage of a visit by Stanley Porter to Acadia to get his insights on the theme. The only snag was that Stan’s visit could take place only before the lecture series, and therefore the audience had the unusual possibly unique experience of hearing the response before the stimulus! However, the respondent was able to read an advance draft of my lectures before he spoke, and the chapter here that reproduces the substance of what he said has been revised in light of my final text. The reader of the present volume can now read the lectures and the response in the correct order!
Finally, it is customary for there to be an invited response to the IBR annual lecture, and this was given by Kevin Vanhoozer. I am indebted to both of my respondents for their contributions, which substantially further and expand the debate.
So you now have before you this brief symposium consisting of the Hayward Lectures and the papers by the two respondents. Both Stan and Kevin have made substantial contributions of their own to the discussion of hermeneutics, and what they have done in their chapters here is not so much to interact with the details of the lectures as to provide some stimulating supplementation on the basis of their own work. At the heart of Stan’s chapter is a critical discussion of five different approaches to our problem: (1) an example of a historical-critical approach by G. B. Caird; (2) an application of insights from L. Wittgenstein by A. C. Thiselton; (3) an application of speech-act theory used by both Thiselton and K. Vanhoozer; (4) the kind of developmental theory that is treated in my own discussion; and (5) an extension of the principle of dynamic equivalence from translation theory to interpretation by the author himself. There is perhaps rather more interaction with my proposals in the contribution by Kevin, and readers will be grateful to him (as I am) for drawing attention to debatable points and omissions in my treatment, but they will also appreciate the ways in which he draws out the different possible meanings of “going beyond Scripture.”
I would make three brief comments here on the responses by Kevin and Stan. First, I am relieved that neither of my respondents has suggested that my app