Miracles Revisited: New Testament Miracle Stories and Their Concepts of Reality - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 311029592X ISBN 13 : 9783110295924

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2013

Synopsis

Since David Hume, the interpretation of miracle stories has been dominated in the West by the binary distinction of fact vs. fiction. The form-critical method added another restriction to the interpretation of miracles by neglecting the context of its macrotexts. Last but not least the hermeneutics of demythologizing was interested in the self-understanding of individuals and not in political perspectives.
The book revisits miracle stories with regard to these dimensions: 1. It demands to connect the interpretation of Miracle Stories to concepts of reality. 2. It criticizes the restrictions of the form critical method. 3. It emphasizes the political implications of Miracle Stories and their interpretations.
Even the latest research accepts this modern opposition of fact and fiction as self-evident. This book will examine critically these concepts of reality with interpretations of miracles. The book will address how concepts of reality, always complex, came to expression in stories of miraculous healings and their reception in medicine, art, literature, theology and philosophy, from classic antiquity to the Middle Ages. Only through such bygone concepts, contemporary interpretations of ancient healings can gain plausibility.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stefan Alkier, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Germany; Annette Weissenrieder, San Francisco Theological Seminary and Graduate Theological Union, CA, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 311029592X
• ISBN 13: 9783110295924
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 422
• Éditeur: Alkier Stefan, Weissenrieder Annette
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; 10785; Allemagne