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Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reading Scripture with the Church is the result of years of debate and discussion among four leading scholars of biblical interpretation. In this volume, ideal as a supplementary hermeneutics textbook, each of the four contributors offers insights on his particular theory of theological interpretation of Scripture. A. K. M. Adam suggests that interpreters break free from the constraining effects...

the Spirit is saying by means of what the human authors of Scripture have said.26 What has changed is the way I understand this divine discourse, its relation to Scripture, and the form that our understanding must take. The change is not a conversion, however, much less a retraction of my former position, but rather its enrichment. Theories of interpretation must do more than describe what readers do, even when these readers make up the community of saints. The church
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