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Academic Biblical Studies
Anglican hermeneutics
Anglo-Catholic Church
Author Horizon
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Bible Reading
Bible Scale
biblical
Biblical Interpretation
biblical literalism analysis
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Charismatic Practice
churchgoers
education
empirical study of church Bible interpretation
empirical theology
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Healing Prayer
Horizon Preference
Horizon Separation
interpretation
interpretative communities
Literal Belief
Literalism Scale
Miraculous Healing
ordinary
Ordinary Bible Readers
Ordinary Churchgoers
Ordinary Readers
passage
personality and scripture
Psychological Type Preference
Reader Horizon
reader response theory
readers
reading
Sift Method
Supernatural Healing
test
Test Passage
theological
Theological Education
Vice Versa
Village 2005b
Product details
- ISBN 9781032180007
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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There are many books about how people ought to interpret the Bible. This book is about how people in churches actually interpret the Bible, and why they interpret it in the way that they do. Based on a study of Anglicans in the Church of England, it explores the interaction of belief, personality, experience and context and sheds new light on the way that texts interact with readers. The author shows how the results of such study can begin to shape an empirically-based theology of scripture. This unique study approaches reader-centred criticism and the theology of scripture from a completely new angle, and will be of interest to both scholars and those who use the Bible in churches.
Revd Dr Andrew Village is Senior Lecturer at York St John University, York, UK
