On Signs, Christ, Truth and the Interpretation of Scripture (Reading Augustine) - Softcover

Susannah Ticciati

Softcover

ISBN 10: 056768282X ISBN 13: 9780567682826

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Synopsis

Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to address the question of truth in the public sphere. In the face of the degeneration of public normative discourse, the book finds in Augustine the resources for the repair of a series of (post)modern oppositions, making way for a rehabilitation of public normativity.

The book discovers in Augustine a truth that is at once inward and public. It is a truth which both scriptural author and interpreter, prompted by the words of Scripture, seek in common. It is a truth which Christ speaks on behalf of others, and which others in turn are liberated to speak in Christ.

Through Augustine, Ticciati offers a scriptural hermeneutic that overcomes a false opposition between modern and postmodern modes of reading, and arrives at a Christologically informed vision of coinherence rather than inclusion, of substitutionary rather than tokenist representation, and of cosmic rather than colonial breadth.

About this title

About the Author

Susannah Ticciati is Professor of Christian Theology at King’s College London, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 056768282X
• ISBN 13: 9780567682826
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224