A Hermeneutic of Imagination: Unlocking Scripture's Full Potential - Couverture souple

Heim, Knut M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 154096910X ISBN 13 : 9781540969101

Editeur : Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group, 2025

Synopsis

To read the Bible well, we need imagination. This is the first book-length study that takes the Bible’s imaginative nature seriously. It integrates insights from disciplines like neuroscience, metaphor theory and cognition, translation theory, the affective sciences, humor studies, and the study of imagination itself into the academic and theological study of the Bible. Here two experts in biblical poetry show that reading with imagination is a critical hermeneutic of engagement that fosters close, deep, lusciously savored, and pleasurable readings of the biblical texts. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, they show how Scripture employs often subtle literary techniques—including figurative language, emotions, and humor—that require imagination to recognize and interpret. Imagination helps us develop genuinely biblical ideas that get us closer to the originally intended meaning, resulting in more accurate interpretations than traditional approaches. A Hermeneutic of Imagination shows that imagination is crucial for unlocking the Bible’s full potential because it transforms biblical studies into intellectually stimulating, emotionally rewarding, theologically rich, and spiritually transformative adventures of the mind that contribute to problem-solving and human flourishing today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Knut M. Heim (PhD, University of Liverpool) is professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado, and the pastor at Deer Park United Methodist Church in Bailey, Colorado. He previously taught at The Queen’s Foundation, University of Birmingham, and at Trinity College, University of Bristol. Jeffrey R. Oetter (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is the pastor at New Hope Community Church in Aurora, Colorado, serves on the staff for Young Life, and is an adjunct professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 154096910X
• ISBN 13: 9781540969101
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible