Seeking Christ in the Scriptures: Intersections of Faith and Biblical Scholarship
Edited by James Buchanan Wallace
6x9
Edited by James Buchanan Wallace
6x9
384 pp.
978-0-88141-782-1
978-0-88141-782-1
Seeking Christ in the Scriptures
An Orthodox Approach to the New Testament
How do we seek Christ in the Scriptures today? What happens when we bring the methods of modern biblical scholarship into conversation with the Church’s faith?
The essays in this volume explore these questions from a range of Orthodox and non-Orthodox perspectives. Some authors approach modern critical methods with caution; others draw on them to uncover theological depth and fresh insight. Together, they take seriously the task of reading the New Testament in a way that is both intellectually honest and spiritually rooted.
Topics include the meaning behind Christ’s miracles and parables, His cry from the cross, the question of the historical Jesus, conversion in Paul’s letters, and the vision of a Christ-centered community in 1 Peter. Several essays apply academic methods to specific texts to show how these tools can bear fruit in Christian life and thought.
This collection is for clergy, students, and lay readers who want to understand not just what the Bible says, but how best to approach it today. The goal isn’t simply knowledge, but to encounter Christ more fully in the living word of Scripture.
About the editor: James Buchanan Wallace, Ph.D., is professor of Religion and an associate dean of the Rosa Deal School of Arts at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN. His research interests include patristic interpretations of Scripture and the Greco-Roman and Jewish religious contexts of early Christianity. He is the author of Snatched into Paradise: 2 Corinthians 12:1–10 in the Contexts of Early Christian Experience (De Gruyter, 2011) and has served as co-editor of three other volumes. With Dr. Athanasios Despotis, he founded the Society of Biblical Literature program unit, Biblical Exegesis from Eastern Orthodox Perspectives. Together, they also founded and edited a monograph series of the same name, published with Brill (Leiden). He and his wife, Thea, and their three children are members of St. John Orthodox Church in Memphis.
