James, Mark Randall
Learning the Language of Scripture

Origen, Wisdom, and the Logic of Interpretation.

Mark Randall James offers a new account of theological interpretation as a sapiential practice of learning the language of Scripture, drawing on recently discovered Homilies on the Psalms by the influential early theologian Origen of Alexandria (2nd-3rd c. C.E). Widely regarded as one of the most arbitrary interpreters, James shows that Origen’s appearance of arbitrariness is a result of the modern tendency to neglect the role of wisdom in scriptural interpretation. James demonstrates that Origen offers a compelling model of a Christian pragmatism in which learning and correcting linguistic practice is a site of the transformative pedagogy of the divine Logos. XIV,339 Seiten, broschiert (Studies in Systematic Theology; Vol. 24/Brill 2021) Kanten leicht bestoßen/edges slightly bumped