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The Bible and Lay People: An Empirical Approach to Ordinary Hermeneutics

Name: The Bible and Lay People: An Empirical Approach to Ordinary Hermeneutics
Price: 55.04 GBP
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Author: Andrew Village
ISBN: 9781032180007

by Andrew Village

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208 pages
Publisher: Routledge
15.6 x 23.4 x 1.2 cm

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For church leaders and Bible study students

Shows how faith and context shape our Bible reading

Helps you understand how the Church reads Scripture

A ground-breaking look at how real people in church congregations interpret the Bible.

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Equipping you for life's journey with Jesus:

Now a team of 60 – we've been serving the Church since 2004
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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.