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Practices, Politics, and Performance

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Practices, Politics, and Performance

Toward a Communal Hermeneutic for Christian Ethics

Michael G. CartwrightSeries: Princeton Theological Monograph

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276

Year

2006

Language

English

Wipf and Stock Publishers

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Drawing on the hermeneutical reflections of John Howard Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas, and Mikhail Bakhtin, Cartwright challenges the way twentieth-century American Protestants have engaged the problem of the use of scripture in Christian ethics, and issues a summons for a new debate oriented by a communal approach to hermeneutics. By analyzing particular ecclesial practices that stand within living traditions of Christianity, the politics of scriptural interpretation can be identified along with the criteria for what a good performance of scripture should be. This approach to the use of scripture in Christian ethics is displayed in historical discussions of two Christian practices through which scripture is read ecclesiologically: the Eastern Orthodox liturgical celebration of the Eucharist and the Anabaptist practice of binding and loosing or the rule of Christ. When American Protestants consider performances of scripture such as these alongside one another within more ecumenical contexts, they begin to confront the ecclesiological problem with their attempts to use the Bible in Christian ethics: the relative absence of constitutive ecclesial practices in American Protestant congregations that can provide moral orientation for their interpretations of Christian scripture.

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General (Religion)
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Adult Nonfiction
General (Biblical Criticism & Interpretation)
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation
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Christian Theology
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Biblical Studies

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SeriesPrinceton Theological Monograph

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Michael G. CartwrightAuthor