Originalism in Theology and Law (eBook, PDF)

Comparing Perspectives on the Bible and the Constitution
Redaktion: Boone, Mark J.; Eckel, Mark D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the study of American law, originalism is primarily a theory about the meaning of the Constitution-that its meaning can only change when its words change. Originalism also appears in biblical theology as a theory on the meaning of the Bible-that its meaning is that intended by the original authors. Originalism in Theology and Law: Comparing Perspectives on the Bible and the Constitution offers a study of originalism in both the Bible and the Constitution. While there are significant connections between originalism as a theory of biblical interpretation and as Constitutional interpretation, there are also differences in the type of text as well as its purpose, function, origins, or authority, which may affect which nuanced version of originalism best fits a particular text, or the best method of interpreting it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216337577
• Artikelnr.: 74836314

Autorenporträt

Mark J. Boone is assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. Mark D. Eckel is president of The Comenius Institute and associate faculty for various institutions, including Indiana University Indianapolis and Capital Seminary & Graduate School, Lancaster, PA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Two Originalisms, Mark J. Boone
Chapter 1: Originalism: First Theology, First Things, Mark Eckel
Chapter 2: Reading Pictures: Comparing Aesthetic and Hermeneutic
Discussions of Intention, Jonathan Johnson
Chapter 3: The Torah Is Not in Heaven: Living Originalism and Political
Integrity in the Oven of Akhnai, Daniel Weissglass
Chapter 4: Sacred Scripture, Sacred Constitution: Individual Religious
Hermeneutics and Constitutional Interpretation, Nicholas Higgins and Micah
Allred
Chapter 5: Originalism and Judicial Restraint: Lessons from the Lutheran
Reformation, John Ehrett
Chapter 6: The Originalist Hermeneutic in Biblical and Constitutional
Context: Comparing and Contrasting the Notion of Originalism in Two Very
Different Fields, Mark A. Snoeberger
Chapter 7: Originalism and the Sources of Authority, Mark J. Boone
Chapter 8: A Difference Between Biblical and Constitutional Originalism,
Menashe C. Roberts
Chapter 9: First Theology and Last Things, Mark Eckel
About the Authors