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McKnight, Edgar Vernon was born on November 21, 1931 in Wilson, South Carolina, United States. Son of William G. and Carrie B. (DeMars) McKnight.
(Harry Emerson Fosdick's classic volume entitled 'The Mode...)
Harry Emerson Fosdick's classic volume entitled 'The Modern Use of the Bible' enabled readers in the first part of this century to make the pilgrimage into the 'modern' era and to understand the Bible in an idiom informed by critical and historical assumptions and approaches. The exchange of the historical context for the dogmatic transformed biblical study into an exciting discipline both spiritually and intellectually. The critical distancing of the text in the historical approach, however, has gradually trnasformed biblical writings into museum pieces without contemporary relevance. For contemporary readers, a satisfying approach cannot be uncritical, but it must move beyond the critical. 'Postmodern Use of the Bible' encourages a continual pilgrimage. In this book, readers are provided resources to enable them to make sense for themselves, in the light of challenges to major critical assumptions and strategies of 'The Modern Use of the Bible' The same goal is in mind-to allow the Bible to speak in a contemporary idiom. -from the Introduction Contents Introduction 1. How Have We Made Sense of the Bible? 2. Toward the Postmodern 3. Literary Perspectives and Resources for Postmodern Use: Structures, Codes, and the Readers 4. The Role of the Reader: Imaging the Sacred 5. The Role of the Reader: Actualizing of Biblical Discourse Conclusion
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(Meaning in Texts: Historical Shaping of a Narrative Herme...)
Meaning in Texts: Historical Shaping of a Narrative Hermeneutics 348 pp. "Meaning in Texts accomplishes two tasks. It applies studies in narrative from a structural perspective to hermeneutical studies and establishes a fundamental relationship--often denied--between hermeneutics and structuralism by tracing the development of the two fields back to Wilhelm Dilthey's groundbreaking studies."Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM HISTORIOGRAPHY HISTORY NARRATIVE HERMENEUTICS WILHELM DILTHEY
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(Jesus Christ in History and Scripture highlights two rela...)
Jesus Christ in History and Scripture highlights two related bases for the current revolution in Jesus studies: (1) a critically-chastened world view that is satisfied with provisional results and (2) a creative (or "poetic") use of the sources of study of Jesus.The first part of the book shows that "precritical, " "critical, " and "postcritical" epochs and attitudes (all alive today) support different sorts of knowledge concerning Jesus (historical reconstructions; historic memory and appropriations; imaginative, poetic, and artistic creations; and theological formulations) and that the Gospels themselves Support different sorts of knowledge and approaches. The Gospels were composed by Christians who combined historical information and historic memory in imaginative ways to present a Jesus who was relevant to their congregations as he was to the earliest disciples. The creative contribution that readers of the Gospels make in their reconstructions of Jesus is a recapitulation of the creative activities of the earliest evangelists.The central section of the book provides a philosophical rationale for correlating the historical-critical methods of biblical scholars and the rationalist methods of theologians and for correlating these" modern" Enlightenment modes of knowledge with feeling, lived experience, and praxis. It also traces the attempts to do justice to the historical Jesus with particular attention to the different philosophical and theological presuppositions supporting the different attempts.A final section discusses the values of non-foundationlist hermeneutical approaches for the broader questions of the use and authority of the Bible. In the end, ecumenical ratherthan divisive approaches are advocated. Different ways of doing church and different ways of discovering and creating truth demand an ecumenical approach.
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McKnight, Edgar Vernon was born on November 21, 1931 in Wilson, South Carolina, United States. Son of William G. and Carrie B. (DeMars) McKnight.
Bachelor of Science, College Charleston, 1953; Master of Divinity, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1960.
From assistant professor to associate dean for academic affairs, Furman U., Greenville, South Carolina., 1963-1973; professor, Furman U., Greenville, since 1974.
(Harry Emerson Fosdick's classic volume entitled 'The Mode...)
(Jesus Christ in History and Scripture highlights two rela...)
(Meaning in Texts: Historical Shaping of a Narrative Herme...)
(Bible as literature study)
(Book by McKnight, Edgar)
Member American Association of University Professors, American Academy Religion, Society Biblical Literature (council 1976-1981), Society New Testament Studies, Torch Club (president Greenville 1992), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Shirley Robinson, June 4, 1955. Children: Deborah Lynn, Edgar Vernon Junior.