What Is the Bible?: The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture

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The patristic doctrine of Scripture is an understudied topic. Recent scholars, however, have shown considerable interest in patristic exegetical strategies and methods—from rhetoric and typology, to theory and method; far less attention, though, has been paid to the early Christian understanding of the nature of Scripture itself. This volume explores the patristic vision of the Bible—the understanding of Scripture as the word of life and salvation, the theological, liturgical, and ascetical practice of reading—and is anchored by keynote essays from Fr. John McGuckin, Paul Blowers, and Michael Legaspi.

 

The purpose is to reopen a consideration of the doctrine of Scripture for contemporary theology, rooted in the tradition of the Church Fathers (Greek, Latin, and Oriental), an endeavor inspired by the theological vision of the twentieth century’s foremost Orthodox Christian theologian, Fr. Georges Florovsky. Our interest is not in mere description of historical uses of Scripture or interpretive methods, but rather in the very nature of Scripture itself and its place within the whole economy of creation, revelation, and salvation.

About the author

Seraphim Danckaert is the director of development at Orthodox Christian Network in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and serves as an advisory committee member for the Fr. Georges Florovsky Orthodox Christian Theological Society of Princeton University.

 

Matthew Baker was a Greek Orthodox priest at Holy Trinity Parish in Norwich, Connecticut, a committee member of the Fr. Georges Florovsky Orthodox Christian Theological Society of Princeton University, and associate editor of Participatio: The Journal of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship. He earned a PhD in systematic theology at Fordham University.

 

Mark Mourachian is assistant professor of Greek and Latin and college division chair of the department of humanities and science at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. He earned a PhD in early Christian studies at the Catholic University of America.

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