BIBLE and INTERPRETATION
RE-ENCHANTING THE TEXT Discovering the Bible as Sacred, Dangerous, and Mysterious Cheryl Bridges Johns In an age when the Bible has been stripped of its sacredness and functional biblical illiteracy reigns, this book makes the case that we must work to re-enchant the text in order to return the Bible to its rightful place in the lives of Christians. Cheryl Bridges Johns explains how the Enlightenment’s turn to the rational human subject made it possible to objectify the Bible and has misshapen our interpretations of Scripture. This move generated a belief that studying the Bible was primarily a means of supporting facts and providing evidence of competing visions of reality. This “modern” version of the Bible does not trouble our nights with apocalyptic images. It has been stripped of its power. She also shows that both “liberal” and “fundamentalist” interpre- tation are failed forms of disenchanted readings. Johns argues that we must rediscover the Bible as a sacred, dangerous, mysterious, and presence-filled wonderland to counteract biblical illiteracy in an increasingly post-Christian landscape. Re-enchanting the Text will appeal to professors and students with an interest in hermeneutics, practical theology, and cultural apologetics as well as all pilgrims seeking a better way of reading the Bible.
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CONTENTS
SPRING 2023 • 224 pp. • paper • $24.99 • 9781540965134
Introduction 1. The Strange Silence of the Bible 2. Longing for Enchantment 3. The Contours of Enchantment 4. Hopeful Signs 5. The Enchanting Festival of Pentecost 6. Dimensions of the Enchanted Text of Holy Scripture 7. Re-enchanting the People of God
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Cheryl Bridges Johns (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a pastor and theologian who has taught college and seminary students for over forty years. She is the Robert E. Fisher Chair of Spiritual Renewal at Pentecostal Theological Seminary and is past president of the Society for Pentecostal Stud- ies. She has researched the ways human development intersects with spiritual transformation for over three decades.
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