FIGURAL READING in the ANGLICAN TRADITION
ephraim radner & david ney, editors
foreword by hans boersma
All Thy Lights Combine: Figural Reading in the Anglican Tradition
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An Introduction to Figural Reading in the Anglican Tradition
EPHRAIM RADNER AND DAVID NEY
Scripture Words and the Scriptural Commonwealth
William Tyndale and Figural Reading
DAVID MASON BARR
Excerpt from “The Prologue” from An Exposition Upon the V. VI. VII. Chapters of Matthew
Thomas Cranmer and Figural Reading
EPHRAIM RADNER
Excerpt from A Fruitful Exhortation Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture
Richard Hooker and Figural Reading
TORRANCE KIRBY
Excerpt from Richard Hooker’s Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie
Mary Sidney Herbert and Figural Reading
LAURANCE WIEDER
John Donne and Figural Reading
NATHAN WALL
Excerpts from “Holy Sonnet: I am a little world made cunningly”
Ecclesiological Unity and the Enlarging of Scripture
Richard Sibbes and Figural Reading
JULIANNE SANDBERG
Excerpt from “Commentary on 2 Corinthians 4:14”
Charles Wesley and Figural Reading
JOHN R. TYSON
Excerpt from “The Good Samaritan”
The Multiplicity of Scripture Words
William Jones of Nayland and Figural Reading
DAVID NEY
Excerpt from On the Figurative Language of Holy Scripture
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Figural Reading
JEFFREY W. BARBEAU
Excerpt from The Statesman’s Manual (1816)
“The Feeling of Infinity” and Parochial Life
John Keble and Figural Reading
MARIA POGGI JOHNSON
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About All Thy Lights Combine: Figural Reading in the Anglican TraditionWe do not simply interpret God’s word. His word interprets us. Figural interpretation has been a trademark of Anglican devotions from the beginning. Anglican readers—including Tyndale, Cranmer, Hooker, and Lewis—have been figural readers of the Bible. By paying attention to how words, images, and narratives become figures of others in Scripture, these readers sought to uncover how God’s word interprets all of reality. Every verse shines the constellation of God’s story. Edited by David Ney and Ephraim Radner, the essays in All Thy Lights Combine explore how the Anglican tradition has employed figural interpretation to theological, Christological, and pastoral ends. The prayer book is central; it immerses Christians in the words of Scripture and orders them by the word. With guided prayers for morning and evening, this book invites readers to be re-formed by God’s word. Become immersed in the riches of the Anglican interpretive tradition. |
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