TY - BOOK AU - Eskola,Timo TI - Beyond Biblical theology: sacralized culturalism in Heikki Räisänen's hermeneutics T2 - Biblical interpretation series, SN - 9789004258037 AV - BS2350 .E85 2013 U1 - 225.6092 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Räisänen, Heikki. KW - Bible KW - New Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - History KW - Hermeneutics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-472) and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Reading Raisanen’s Biblical Criticism in Context -- 1. From Riccoldo to Reimarus to Raisanen -- 2. A Panorama of Natural Theology: The Chain of Interpretation -- 3. In the Shadow of Weber: Religion as Culture—Culture as Religion -- 4. It is All Signs: Reading Poststructuralism -- 5. Raisanen’s Wolfenbuttelian Turn: Dissolving the Old Systema -- 6. The Debate over New Testament Theology -- 7. A Chain of Interpretation or a Semiotic Cathedral? -- 8. The Rise of Christian Beliefs -- 9. From Quran Criticism to Sociological Reductionism -- 10. Conclusion: Chains of Interpretation -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - Reading Heikki Räisänen’s hermeneutics in context, Timo Eskola explores the development of Western New Testament interpretation. Reclaiming a Wredean approach to the Scriptures, Räisänen focuses on tradition and interpretation. He builds on Weberian sociology, adopted through Peter Berger’s theories, and substitutes sacralized culturalism for biblical theology. After examining fourteenth century Quran-criticism and its impact on Reimarus, Eskola discusses the genesis of the revised history-of-religion theory that Räisänen developed when investigating the Quran’s relationship to the Bible. Sociology then becomes a link between standard historicism and poststructuralism as Räisänen reinterprets Berger’s sociology of knowledge. Räisänen’s sacralized culturalism finally becomes the theory from which his magnum opus The Rise of Christian Beliefs has been written UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004258037 ER -