A Darkened Reading

Name: A Darkened Reading
SKU: 9780227174951
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Using the factionalised state of 19th Century Anglicanism as its historical model, this is a challenging discussion of how divisions with the church have driven the emergence of competing approaches biblical interpretation.

SKU: 9780227174951 Categories: Religion, Religion & Spirituality

Binding: Perfect Bound

Pages: 272Author: Robert L. Knetsch

Description

For five hundred years, the church in the West has split into multiple identities, each claiming to be the best representation of the church established by Christ. New methods of scriptural interpretation have often accompanied and supported such theological claims. Rarely, however, has an exploration been undertaken to test the impact of this ecclesiological division on the reading of the Bible. A Darkened Reading explores the specific case of the nineteenth-century Church of England and competing interpretations of the book of the prophet Isaiah – a book of great importance in theological history – as a parable of the existential anguish the church has experienced because of internal division.