商品簡介
One of the most consistent features of Christian life has been the extensive use of the biblical texts in sermons; to evangelise, to educate, to edify, to exhort, and even to terrify those who heard them. Yet, surprisingly little scholarly attention has been focused on the dynamics at work as these texts were taken by preachers and transformed into the largely aural experience encountered by their audience. Pre-formed and performed thus, scripture was communicated and made relevant through the use of the sermonic form to audiences inhabiting a broad range of socio-historical settings, including those whose social status or illiteracy might otherwise have completely precluded any access to biblical texts. In this volume, instances of biblical reception within and through preaching have been taken from two millennia of homilies, with each being examined to see how the text-preacher-audience dynamic has influenced the interpretation, understanding and impact of the Bible. Examples include Paul, Origen, Chrysostom, Augustine, Hildegard of Bingen, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Colerdge, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Chris Brain.
作者簡介
William John Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Interpretation in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol. His main interest is Biblical Interpretation, especially in the areas of Biblical Theology and the History of Interpretation. His publications include Canon and Praxis: The Canonical Approach and the Sodom Narrative (Sheffield Academic Press, 2002) and, as co-editor and contributor, New Directions in Qumran Studies (Continuum, 2005) and The Way the World Ends? The Apocalypse of John in Ideology and Culture (Sheffield Phoenix Press, forthcoming). Isabella Sandwell is Lecturer in Ancient History in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. Her research interests include religious interaction in late antiquity and the preaching of John Chrysostom. Her publications include Religious Identity in Late Antiquity: Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch (CUP, 2007), (edited with Janet Huskinson) Culture and Society in Late Roman Antioch, (Oxbow Books, 2004) and 'Outlawing 'Magic' or Outlawing 'Religion'?: Libanius and the Theodosian Code as Evidence for Legislation against Pagan Practices in the Fourth Century AD', in V. W. Harris (ed.) Understanding the Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries (Brill, 2005).