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Whose Canon?
FREDERICK J. GAISER
(see full text of essay under “Editorial”)
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Canon, by
definition, is an in-house term, a term of identity—these are our books, our literature, our story, our family, where “our” includes not only
present believers but those throughout the centuries who have read and heard
read these books. Here is where we belong. Trouble is, it has always been
something of a messy belonging, and it’s becoming only more so.
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Articles
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Peopled by the Book
ALLEN
G. JORGENSON
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To say we are “peopled by the book” is to affirm that Holy Scripture is
not some thing that we accept
(or not), but that Scripture is the communal means by which we are spoken
into being by the God of life.
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What Are We Reading? Canonicity and the Old Testament
STEPHEN
B. CHAPMAN
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Contrary to the standard step-by-step model of the formation of the Old
Testament canon, the process was more fluid, on ongoing recognition of the
authority of certain books, based on their use. Hints at early canonical
moves are evident already in the Old Testament texts themselves. All of this
is important to Christian readers because, without the Old Testament, the
church cannot properly know who Jesus is.
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Zigzagging through Deep Waters: A Guide to Brevard
Childs’s Canonical Exegesis of Scripture
DENNIS
T. OLSON
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Brevard Childs’s canonical approach to Scripture
assumes that the Bible has been deliberately shaped and edited to makes its
witness accessible to future generations as an ongoing word from God.
Interpreting the Bible, therefore, involves a deep and careful engagement
with the details of particular texts in the expectation of encountering,
thereby, the word of the living God.
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Canon and Conscience: A Feminist Perspective
TATHA
WILEY
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It is important not to confuse acceptance of a biblical
text as canonical with a value judgment about the goodness or moral
acceptability of a text. The goal of a feminist response to the question of
canon is to enable discernment of authentic Christian values in the
scriptural legacy.
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Noncanonical
Texts: The Da
Vinci Code and Beyond
DAVID LANDRY
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The discovery or invention of previously unknown early
Christian documents has produced debates and squabbles in the academic
community and considerable furor in popular culture. An overview of the
issues will help readers find their way through these controversies.
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“You shall bear witness to me”: Thinking with
Luther about Christ and the Scriptures
GARY M. SIMPSON
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To get Scripture right, we must start with the right questions, as
Martin Luther did: What is Scripture for? What is the relation between Christ
and Scripture? Between law and gospel? How does the gospel function as
promise?
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Grist for the Mill: Luther on the Apocrypha
CHRISTOPHER M. CROGHAN
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Luther valued and
translated the Apocrypha—that is, some of it—because he found it to echo
canonical Scripture, thus functioning as the word of God and providing pastoral
care for Christian souls.
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Judges: A Public Canon for Public Theology
RICHARD D. NELSON
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Reading the story of
Gideon for insights into the kind of values displayed by the character of the
participants in the drama can draw the account into the public arena, making
it available for a public audience (not just believers) to consider and
evaluate notions of leadership applicable to the present as well as the past.
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Resources
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Advancing the Cruciform Revolution: A Kingdom
Perspective on Evangelism
GREGORY A. BOYD
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Evangelism is not
just one more thing on the Christian to-do list. It is to be who we are, to be conformed to the image of Christ, to
revolt against everything in culture and in religion that opposes the kingdom of God.
Jesus did not try to sell opinions; he loved, served, and confronted people
in order to invite them into a different way of life.
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Face to
Face: The Canon: Open or Closed?
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Open: A Living
Witness
MARY HINKLE SHORE
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Closed: A Historical Commitment
ERIC D. BARRETO
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Texts in
Context: To See the Canon in a Grain of Sand: Preaching Jude
BRYAN J. WHITFIELD
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Through its bold use of canonical and extracanonical resources, the
small epistle of Jude offers many lessons for the preacher on the use of
texts in ways to make sermons biblically literate, rhetorically vibrant, and
courageously engaged.
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Reviews
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How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and
Now, by James L. Kugel
CLINT
SCHNEKLOTH
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The Life of a
Galilean Shaman: Jesus of Nazareth
in Anthropological-Historical Perspective,
by Pieter F. Craffert
CHRISTOPHER W. SKINNER
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God and the New
Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens,
by John F. Haught
ALAN G. PADGETT
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Index to Volume 29 (2009)
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