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Two experts in exegesis and dogmatics show how Christology and the doctrine of the Trinity are grounded in Scripture and how knowledge of these topics is critical for exegesis. The book outlines key theological principles and rules for the exegesis of Christian Scripture, making it an ideal textbook for hermeneutics and interpretation courses. The authors explore how the triune God revealed in Christ shapes Scripture and its readers and how doctrinal rules intrinsic to Scripture help guide exegesis.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	05 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493436644
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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“This book is an invitation to another book: Holy Scripture. In Biblical Reasoning , Jamieson and Wittman make what might be called an exegetical confession: Scripture is God’s word that reveals and redeems to the end that readers are brought into relationship. God speaks so God’s creatures finally see God. Trinitarian and christological doctrine, in this economy, is not a movement away from the biblical texts but rather the theological grammar that flows from and returns the reader to the canonical voice of God, the Father who sends the Son and the Spirit. Tolle lege, tolle lege : take up and read this book, for the sake of taking up and reading the other one.”
— Jonathan A. Linebaugh , University of Cambridge; fellow, Jesus College
“Theology needs to be exegetical and contemplative, though a whole host of pressures draw attention elsewhere. Biblical Reasoning helps alert us to where we should focus and equips us to do so with competence and care. I hope it’s read widely by students and those who long to go back to school with the Scriptures.”
— Michael Allen , Reformed Theological Seminary
“Does biblical exegesis, when done with modern tools, collapse the classical dogmatic consensus on the Trinity and Christ? Jamieson and Wittman show us why the answer is no through a careful introduction to what Scripture is, what hearing Scripture’s truth involves, and why the realities of the Trinity and the incarnation are biblical. This book requires the attention of all catholic (and Catholic) Christians. The movement founded by the great John Webster rises to new heights with this book!”
— Matthew Levering , Mundelein Seminary
“God’s self-presentation to us in Scripture is the path to God’s self-presentation to us in the beatific vision. For this reason, biblical interpretation is never merely a matter of attending to the various historical, literary, and theological features of the text. If biblical interpretation is to fulfill its divinely appointed end, we must learn to recognize the face of God in Holy Scripture (Ps. 27:8). In this profoundly learned, instructive, and helpful work, Bobby Jamieson and Tyler Wittman outline and exemplify a number of well-tried exegetical principles and tools for discerning in Scripture the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. This is a book of generational significance that deserves to be read by all teachers and serious students of the Bible.”
— Scott R. Swain , Reformed Theological Seminary
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Copyright Page
© 2022 by Robert Bruce Jamieson III and Tyler R. Wittman
Published by Baker Academic
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Epigraph
All the knowledge imparted by faith revolves around these two points, the divinity of the Trinity and the humanity of Christ.
—Thomas Aquinas, Compendium of Theology
You have to learn to speak sky with an earth tongue.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
Contents
Cover
Endorsements i
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Epigraph v
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Note on Sources xv
Introduction: Theology for Better Exegesis xvii
PART ONE BIBLICAL REASONING 1
1. Seek His Face Always: The End of Biblical Reasoning 3
2. The School of Christ: The Pedagogical Context of Biblical Reasoning 23
3. The Curriculum of Christ: The Source and Practice of Biblical Reasoning 41
PART TWO CHRISTOLOGICAL AND TRINITARIAN RULES FOR EXEGESIS 61
4. Worthy Are You: Understanding Scripture as Honoring God 63
5. The L ORD Is One: The Trinity’s Unity and Equality in Scripture’s Twofold Discourse 91
6. Varieties of Activities but the Same God: The Trinity’s Inseparable Operations and Scripture’s Appropriation 106
7. One and the Same: The Unity of Christ and Scripture’s Communication of Idioms 126
8. Greater Than Himself and Less Than Himself: Christ’s Two Natures and Scripture’s Partitive Discourse 153
9. God from God: From Missions to Processions 179
10. Putting the Rule-Kit to Work: Reading John 5:17–30 213
Conclusion: From Glory to Glory 235
Appendix: Table of Principles and Rules 239
Bibliography 243
Subject Index 267
Author Index 273
Scripture and Other Ancient Sources Index 277
Back Cover 290
Acknowledgments
T he writing of this book began in the relative calm of 2019 and was frustrated by the many upheavals of the years since. Despite the challenges of writing during a complex global crisis, we have been reminded that contemplating the mystery of the Trinity sustains us in ways that more “practical” concerns do not.
Thanks are due, first, to the whole team at Baker Academic. We are grateful for their embrace of and enthusiasm for this work and for their skillful assistance throughout. We especially want to thank our editors, Dave Nelson and Tim West, and the other members of Baker’s editorial team for improving the book in many ways and granting us generous leeway in its form and scope. We are indebted to Michael Allen, Scott Swain, and Fred Sanders for advocating for and encouraging this project, and are doubly indebted to Fred for incisive comments on, and fortifying encouragement of, chapter 9.
We also thank those who read and commented on portions of the manuscript: Alex Arrell, Rodney Evans, Caleb Greggson, Ryan Hurd, Jonathan Keisling, Vincent Kajuma, David Larson, Tim Stanton, and Ben Robin. Special thanks go to Nick Gardner for astute comments on the whole manuscript and to David Moser for insightful, generative reflections on chapters 7 and 8.
We are heartily grateful to Richard McBee for allowing his striking, evocative work Jacob’s Dream to illumine the book’s cover.
Finally, we would like to thank our Lord Jesus Christ and the teachers he has graciously provided to the church who shaped this book’s ideas. He has answered our prayers that this book would see the light of day; now we wait confidently, praying that it will bear some good fruit.
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Bobby Jamieson would like to thank Eric Beach for reading and discussing several primary sources that proved seminal, and the students in my June 2021 class on biblical reasoning at Bethlehem Seminary for their enriching engagement with an early draft of the book. I am especially grateful to Capitol Hill Baptist Church for generous sabbaticals in the summers of 2019 and 2021, in which I was able to draft and revise most of my half of the book. I’m deeply grateful to my friend and coauthor Tyler for a fruitful decade of theological sharpening that joyfully intensified in these past three years. I also thank Mark Dever for his generous support of my writing, and, last because opposite of least, my wife, Kristin, and our four delightful children for making writing a joyful family project. Χάρις τῷ θεῷ.
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Tyler Wittman would like to thank the students and colleagues who generously encouraged this book. Thanks are especially due to the many friends old and new who saw us through some very trying months and transitions amid the pandemic, which delayed and even imperiled the book. I’m particularly thankful for Jamie Dew, whose belief in and encouragement of my academic pursuits has been a lifeline. Thanks also to my friend Bobby, whose good humor and intelligence made this book better than it would’ve been otherwise. Where would I be without my wife, Jessie? Her resolute support, patient listening as ideas took shape, and feedback left me acutely aware of my own poverty, but also my wealth. The cheerful optimism of our four children is a constant source of inspiration. Life is much more than writing books, and for this I’m deeply grateful.
Abbreviations AB Anchor Bible ACT Ancient Christian Texts ACW Ancient Christian Writers AJEC Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity ANE Ancient Near East ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers AT Authors’ translation AugStud Augustinian Studies BAC The Bible in Ancient Christianity BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research BDAG Danker, Frederick W., Walter Bauer, William F. Arndt, and F. Wilbur Gingrich. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature . 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. BDB Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament . Reprint, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1979. BECNT Baker Exegetical Commentary on the N