UID:
almahu_9947415401502882
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 192 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511555237 (ebook)
Content:
This is a sequel to the author's The Language and Logic of the Bible: The Earlier Middle Ages. The period of the reformation saw immense changes of approach to the study of the Bible, which in turn brought huge consequences. This book, seeking to show the direction of endeavour of such study in the last medieval centuries, examines the theory of exegesis, practical interpretation, popular Bible study and preaching, and looks especially at the areas of logic and language in which the scholars of the period had considerable expertise. The condemnation of the scholastics has tended to sink with them a proper recognition of what they achieved. In looking forward to the reformation, Dr Evans demonstrates a greater continuity of attitude than has often been allowed and describes how the enquiries of later medieval scholars opened out into the explorations of the sixteenth century made by Protestant and Roman Catholic thinkers alike.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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I. Scripture's divine warrant -- 1. 'Scripture hath for its author God himself' -- 2. The human authors of Scripture -- 3. Handing on and explanations -- The Fathers -- Traditions -- Gospel before church -- 4. Sola scriptura -- 5. Towards private judgement: 'The children of God spy out their father' -- II. The rule of interpretation -- 6. The ground rules -- 7. The literal sense -- 8. Vis vocis -- The Bible's language -- Ways of signifying and the properties of terms -- Syncategoremata -- III. Practical interpretation -- 9. The text -- What is the Bible? -- Textual criticism: the Vulgate -- The original language -- The translation of the Bible and the vernacular -- 10. Lecturing -- Lecturers -- The commentaries -- The wells of Abraham -- The Sentences -- 11. Questions -- Via antiqua, via moderna -- Questioning the truth of Scripture -- Equivocation, fallacies and contradictions -- Topics, consequences and obligations -- The Bible's future tenses -- The reaction against scholasticism -- Commonplaces -- 12. Preaching the Word -- Preachers' keys to the Bible -- The friars and the laity -- Preaching against the heretics -- The new preaching to the laity.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521305488
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511555237
