The Canonical Approach: A Critical Reconstruction of the Hermeneutics of Brevard S. Childs (Biblical Interpretation, No 16)

The Canonical Approach Makes A Detailed Assessment Of Brevard Childs' 'canonical Approach' To Biblical Interpretation. A Careful Analysis Of Childs' Work Identifies A Number Of Historical, Hermeneutical, And Theological Issues That Are Central Both To Childs' Programme And To The Wider Methodological Debate. These Include The Adequacy Of The Historical-critical Tools, Their Relationship To The More Recent, 'synchronic', Approaches, The Role Of The Interpreter's Own Presuppositions, The Viability Of Working From A Specific Faith-commitment, And Ways In Which The Ancient Texts Can 'speak' To The Modern Church. After An Incisive Discussion Of These Questions It Is Suggested How Childs' Programme Can Be Set On A Sounder Methodological Basis. This Book Is Particularly Notable For Its Clarification Of Childs' Approach, And For Its Original Solutions To A Number Of Central Methodological Problems. Childs' Methodology : Some Fundamental Elements -- From Canonical Introduction To Biblical Theology -- Reference, Fact, And Interpretation -- Historical Methodology -- Traditions And The Final Form -- Philosophical And Canonical Hermeneutics -- Hermeneutics And Objectivism -- The Illumination By The Spirit -- Canonical Exegesis -- A Critical Reconstruction Of Childs' Programme. By Paul R. Noble. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [371]-377) And Index. Through analysing Brevard Childs' 'canonical approach' to biblical interpretation, this book explores some of the central problems in biblical methodology and hermeneutics. The author's novel solutions suggest how Childs' programme can be set upon a sounder methodological basis.