Heath A. Thomas
Auteur van Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem
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Heath A. Thomas is dean of the College of Theology and Ministry and professor of Old Testament at Oklahoma Baptist University. He has written several books on the Old Testament, including his other work on Habakkuk, Faith amid the Ruins.
Werken van Heath A. Thomas
Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem (2013) — Redacteur — 64 exemplaren
The Gospel of Our King: Bible, Worldview, and the Mission of Every Christian (2019) — Auteur — 63 exemplaren
Great Is Thy Faithfulness?: Reading Lamentations as Sacred Scripture (2011) — Redacteur — 8 exemplaren
Until He Looks Down and Sees: the message and meaning of the book of Lamentations (Biblical series) (2009) 7 exemplaren
Poetry and theology in the Book of Lamentations : the aesthetics of an open text (2013) 6 exemplaren
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I generally align with the “postmodern” (a term which has, over the course of 50 years of use, admittedly become diffused in meaning). Because of this, I disagree with the suggestion that “reader-centered” approaches, or biblical interpretative methods which foreground the role of the reader in interpretation, must necessarily be relativistic. That is a kind of scarecrow argument. This being said, I resonate with the attack upon “author-centered,” or modernist/historical-critical/“scientifically-based” interpretation, because it proved generally to be bankrupt from the standpoint of religious belief, creating a wide gulf between religious and scholarly treatment of the Bible. This is ironic because historical criticism, again speaking generally, tried to bridge a wide historical gulf between the production of a text and its interpretation.
But I don’t think it is necessary to reach back, or to pretend to reach back, to “pre-modern” interpretation, or in my term “tradition-centered interpretation.” The toothpaste doesn’t go back in the tube. Rather, this is another aspect of “reader-centered” approaches: the readers, in this case, are theologically-minded Christians (and Jews, maybe).
Overall, this is a difficult read, and it is thoroughly contextualized for a (White) Western audience. This makes it a curious choice for my class of Korean pastors next month, but on the other hand it gives me a little more to talk about.… (meer)