Anglican Biblical Interpretation in the Nineteenth Century

A Critical Evaluation
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69402-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

Reihe: Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History

How did Anglicans read the Bible 200 years ago? This book invites you into the world of nineteenth-century Anglican biblical interpretation. It draws on sermons, memoirs, and commentaries to show the interesting, compelling, and sometimes confusing ways that Anglicans read the Bible. The book contains new research on Charles Simeon, Benjamin Jowett, John Keble, Christina Rossetti, F.D. Maurice, Richard Chenevix Trench, and many others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartin, Cole William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Anglikanische und episkopale Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1 Background: the Interpretation of Scripture and Nineteenth-Century Anglicanism

2 Book in Outline: Anglican Biblical Interpretation in the Nineteenth Century

1 Charles Simeon and Evangelical Interpretation

1 Charles Simeon, Evangelical

2 Charles Simeon on the Nature of Scripture

3 Charles Simeon’s Exegesis of the Old Testament

4 The Gospels and Christology

5 The Role of Earlier Interpreters and Evangelical Trajectories

6 Broadening the Horizons

2 Bishops of Durham and the Doctrine of Scripture: J. B. Lightfoot and B. F. Westcott

1 Two Bishops of Durham

2 J. B. Lightfoot and the Text of Scripture

3 Lightfoot the Theologian?

4 B. F. Westcott on History and Theology

5 Westcott and Exegesis

6 Broad Church, Broader Interpretation

3 Benjamin Jowett and Broad Church Interpretation

1 From Scripture to Text: Shifts in Anglo-European Scriptural Interpretation

2 The Broad Church, Scripture, and Benjamin Jowett

3 Jowett on Scripture’s Ontology and Providence

4 Authorship and History for Trench and Jowett

5 Frederic William Farrar: Providence and Progress in History

6 From Interpretation to Application: Jowett on Scriptural Meaning

7 Jowett on Language: Expanding the Interpretive Horizon

8 The Next Leap: Tractarian Interpretation

4 John Keble and Tractarian Interpretation

1 The Oxford Movement and the Interpretation of Scripture

2 Keble on the Parable of the Good Samaritan

3 Another Take on the Parable of the Good Samaritan: Richard Chenevix Trench

4 Figural Reading Keble and Pusey

5 Patristic Authority? Competing Accounts in Keble and Trench

6 Keble and Trench on Providence

7 Tractarian Interpretation in Summary

5 Another Angle on Tractarian Interpretation: Christina Rossetti

1 Christina Rossetti: Tractarian

2 Figures of Scripture, Figures of Nature

3 Rossetti and Scripture’s Inexhaustibility

4 Church Tradition and Interpretation

5 Moving beyond Tractarianism

6 Pushing the Boundaries: F. D. Maurice

1 F. D. Maurice and the Problems of Categorization

2 Situating Maurice’s Theological and Scriptural Background

3 Discerning God’s Communication: Maurice’s Interpretation of Scripture

4 An Exegetical Portrait of F. D. Maurice

5 Toward ‘Orthodox’ Trajectories

7 Richard Chenevix Trench and ‘Orthodox’ Interpretation

1 The ‘Orthodox’ Movement in the Nineteenth Century

2 Trench’s Scriptural Conservatism

3 Trench’s Scriptural Traditionalism: an Augustinian Heritage

4 Trench on Scripture: a Cohesive Vision

5 Toward a Critical Evaluation

Conclusion

1 Summary: the Trajectory in Retrospect

2 Tracing Lines to the Present

3 Theological Gleanings

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cole William Hartin, Ph.D., Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto, is an Associate Rector at Christ Church Episcopal in Tyler, Texas. He has published scholarly articles on nineteenth-century Anglicanism, as well as many popular articles and poems.