Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Chapter 1 The Shortcomings of the Historical-Critical Method and the Promise of Theological Interpretation of Scripture: A Short Survey of the Landscape and a New Proposal / Ryan A. Brandt and John Frederick -- Chapter 2 The Holy Spirit and Moral Habitude: Aquinas’s Pneumatology of the Virtuous Life / Neil Pembroke -- Chapter 3 The Significance of Victorian Virtues for African American Moral Formation / Arthur M. Sutherland -- Chapter 4 Biblical Theology: What is it and How Should it be Done? / Ben Witherington III -- Chapter 5 Latin Readings of the Role of the Spirit in the Book of Acts / Carlos Raúl Sosa Siliezar -- Chapter 6 What it has Meant and Might Mean to be “The Church of the Poor” After the Early Chapters of Acts / Mark W. Elliott -- Chapter 7 Divine Culpability and Human Response-Ability: Who is to Blame When We are “Afflicted by Evil” (Job 2:7)? / Paul Hedley Jones -- Chapter 8 Singing Toward Virtue: The Christ Hymn and Spiritual Formation in Colossians / Glenn Packiam -- Chapter 9 Formed by Jesus’ Thirst: Mother Teresa’s Reception and Interpretation of John 19:28 / Rachel Davies -- Chapter 10 “How Do You Read?” / Alexander P. Thompson -- Chapter 11 Melos as Melody: Moral Formation through Musical Metaphor in Colossians, Philo, and Ignatius of Antioch / John Frederick -- Chapter 12 A Sour Stomach: Theological Interpretation in Light of Revelation 10 / Christopher T. Holmes -- Chapter 13 “Healing Him by Grace”: Romans 5:5 and Moral Transformation in Augustine of Hippo’s Eps . 140 and 145 / Coleman M. Ford -- Chapter 14 Clement of Alexandria and the True Gnostic Formed by Scripture / David Rankin -- Chapter 15 Reading with Eyes That Hear: Reading Scripture as Listening and Spiritual Formation / Danny McDonald -- Chapter 16 Regula Catholica, Regula Interpretatio : A Summary and Way Forward for Theological Interpretation of Scripture / John Frederick and Ryan A. Brandt -- General Index -- Scripture Index.

Academic expertise is essential. But have you ever wondered how it itself is spiritually formative? This book, coming from an interdisciplinary assortment of scholars, shows how the exegetical methods of Theological Interpretation of Scripture (TIS) are themselves spiritually formative. This book provides a diverse collection of essays that focus on theological interpretative methods that result in a unique transformational experience not achieved through historical-critical or grammatical-historical approaches alone. Renowned thinkers—such as biblical scholar Ben Witherington III, historical theologian Mark Elliott, and theologian Arthur Sutherland—offer new works that explore how reading theologically can transform theology, cultures, and individuals. These new studies focus on the theological exegesis of such thinkers as Mother Teresa, Thomas Aquinas, Ignatius of Antioch, and Clement of Alexandria. The collection also includes several important and timely pieces that show how theological interpretation leads to moral formation within diverse cultural groups including African American and Latinx communities.

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