Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Approaching the Gospels
- 1 What Is a Gospel?
- 2 The Fourfold Gospel
- 3 Gospel Sources and Interrelations
- 4 The Scriptural Matrix of the Gospels
- 5 The Gospels and ‘the Historical Jesus’
- 6 The Gospels and the Reader
- Part II The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ
- Part III The Afterlife of the Gospels
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
6 - The Gospels and the Reader
from Part I - Approaching the Gospels
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Approaching the Gospels
- 1 What Is a Gospel?
- 2 The Fourfold Gospel
- 3 Gospel Sources and Interrelations
- 4 The Scriptural Matrix of the Gospels
- 5 The Gospels and ‘the Historical Jesus’
- 6 The Gospels and the Reader
- Part II The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ
- Part III The Afterlife of the Gospels
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
Narrates a shift in reading methods from notions of objectivity and authorial intent to a reader-oriented approach which emphasizes the reader as the subject who interprets the text. Drawing upon the philosophical hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer, Schneiders argues that reading scripture is an event with the potential to transform the reader through the transcendent reality mediated by the text.
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 112 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
Fowl, Stephen E., and Jones, L. Gregory, Reading in Communion: Scripture and Ethics in Christian Life (London: SPCK, 1991)Google Scholar
Green, Joel B., ed., Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010)Google Scholar
Jasper, David, A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2004)Google Scholar
Kort, Wesley A., ‘Take, Read’: Scripture, Textuality, and Cultural Practice (University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996)Google Scholar
Schneiders, Sandra M., The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture, 2nd ed. (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1999)Google Scholar
Schōkel, Luis Alonso, A Manual of Hermeneutics (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998)Google Scholar
Watson, Francis, Text, Church and World: Biblical Interpretation in Theological Perspective (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994)Google Scholar