Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

The Future of the Word

An Eschatology of Reading [Paperback]

by Tiffany Eberle Kriner

Author
Tiffany Eberle Kriner
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Fortress Press,U.S.
Published
July 2014

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£25.98

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 6 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

The Future of the Word

Today's Price £25.98

Frequently Bought Together

The Future of the Word

by Tiffany Eberle Kriner

Paperback

The Return of the Prodigal Son

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Paperback

Add both to basket for £37.54 and save £0.44

Product Description

In scripture, Jesus promises a future that potentially infuses all texts: "my words will not pass away" (Matt 24:28). This book argues that texts - even literary texts - have an eschatology, too, a part in God's purpose for the cosmos. They, with all creation, move toward participation in the new creation, in the Trinity's expanding, creative love. This eschatological future for texts impacts how we understand meaning making, from the level of semiology to that of hermeneutics. This book tells the story of how readers participate in the future of the word, the eschatology of texts. If texts have a future in the kingdom of God, then readers' engagements with them-everything from preservation and utterance to translation, criticism, and call and response-can cultivate those futures in the love of the Trinity. Kriner explores how the fallenness and failures of texts, alongside readers' own failures, while seeming to challenge the future of the word, ultimately point to reading as a posture of reconciliation, in which reader and text meet in the Maranatha of all text.