Theology in Language, Rhetoric, and Beyond: Essays in Old and New Testament - Softcover

Lundbom, Jack R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1625644809 ISBN 13: 9781625644800

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2014

Synopsis

This book seeks to place before a broad audience of students and general readers theological essays on both the Old and New Testaments. Theology is seen to derive from a number of sources: the biblical language, biblical rhetoric and composition, academic disciplines other than philosophy, and above all a careful exegesis of the biblical text. The essay on Psalm 23 makes use of anthropology and human-development theory; the essay on Deuteronomy incorporates Wisdom themes; the essay called "Jeremiah and the Created Order" looks at ideas not only about God and creation but also about the seldom-considered idea of God and a return to chaos; the essay on the "Confessions of Jeremiah" examines, not words this extraordinary prophet was given by God to preach, but what he himself felt and experienced in the office to which he was called. Other essays argue that theology is rooted in biblical words-in and of themselves, and in context-and in rhetoric, where the latter must also include composition. One essay on "Biblical and Theological Themes" includes a translation into the African language of Lingala.

About this title

About the Author

Jack R. Lundbom is a retired professor of Old Testament and Christian origins and an ordained minister of the Evangelical Covenant Church who has lectured, preached, and written extensively over a period of fifty years. Major works include commentaries on Jeremiah for the Anchor Bible (1999; 2004), Deuteronomy (2013), and a previous book of sermons on the Christian walk, Oil Enough to Make the Journey (2022).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1625644809
• ISBN 13: 9781625644800
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220