(Ler) [Kindle] Divine Scripture in Human Understanding: A
Systematic Theology of the Christian Bible
By Joseph K Gordon
Divine Scripture in Human Understanding addresses the confusing plurality of
contemporary approaches to Christian Scripture--both within and outside the
academy--by articulating a traditionally grounded, constructive systematic theology
of Christian Scripture. Utilizing primarily the methodological resources of Bernard
Lonergan and traditional Christian doctrines of Scripture recovered by Henri de
Lubac, it draws upon achievements in historical critical study of Scripture, studies of
the material history of Christian Scripture, reflection on philosophical hermeneutics
and philosophical and theological anthropology, and other resources to articulate a
unified but open horizon for understanding Christian Scripture today.Following an
overview of the contemporary situation of Christian Scripture, Joseph Gordon
identifies intellectual precedents for the work in the writings of Irenaeus, Origen, and
Augustine, who all locate Scripture in the economic work of the God to whom it bears
