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Despite many churches claiming that the Bible is highly significant for their doctrine and practice, questions about how we read the Bible are rarely made explicit. Based on ethnographic research in English churches, Congregational Hermeneutics explores this dissonance and moves beyond descriptions to propose ways of enriching hermeneutical practices in congregations. Characterised as hermeneutical apprenticeship, this is not just a matter of learning certain skills, but of cultivating hermeneutical virtues such as faithfulness, community, humility, confidence and courage. These virtues are given substance through looking at four broad themes that emerge from the analysis of congregational hermeneutics - tradition, practices, epistemology and mediation. Concluding with what hermeneutical apprenticeship might look like in practice, this book is constructively theological about what churches actually do with the Bible, and will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Congregational Hermeneutics
• Subtitle: How Do We Read?
• Author: Andrew Rogers
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 324
• EAN: 9781409449881
• ISBN: 1409449882
• ID: 09367206
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 744 g
• Dimensions: 164 × 242 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. December 2015

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