Croy Ch 4 Flashcards
When is the work of Scripture complete?
When interpreters and their communities respond to its message and are transformed
What is ‘beginning and ending with the historical and literary levels’ analysis of the bible text compared to?
'’Body Worlds,’’ which feature preserved bodies in displays that are highly revealing of human anatomy and yet reveal relatively little about human existence.
What terminology is often associated with ‘doing the Scripture’?
Application, appropriation, embodiment, enactment, performance, transformation, and integration
According to Croy, how should we think about ‘doing the Scripture’?
We must make Scripture’s revelatory Word our script, that which we live, speak, enact, and perform
Scripture’s full work is to transform us personally and communally, to establish and then to deepen our relationship to the God who speaks through it
What is one of the most important considerations in the appropriation of Scripture?
the genre of the text under consideration: application depends largely on the nature of Scripture’s utterances.
List the different forms of appeals to Scripture
Commands and prohibitions
Principles
Paradigms
Symbolic world of Scripture
What are paradigms?
stories or summary accounts of characters who model exemplary conduct (or negative paradigms: characters who model reprehensible conduct)
What is the symbolic world of the Scripture
Scripture’s vision of the character of God, the human dilemma, the dynamics of redemption, and the call of discipleship
What four categories given by Croy provide a framework for appropriation of Scripture?
faith
practice,
ministry,
and imagination
In the category of faith what type of questions might apply?
what affirmations about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, humankind, creation, sin, salvation, righteousness, and so forth emerge from the texts in question?
What sort of questions might help with practice?
How does the text inform all life before God?
Does it offer instruction for personal practices of one’s piety
Does the text offer perspectives in such areas as healing, racial reconciliation, economic justice, etc
How does Scripture ‘drive’ the imagination?
Scripture should drive our imagination to envisage the world in all its complex structures as God desires it to be.
What promise and peril does historical criticism present?
On the one hand, rigorous historical study is absolutely necessary to be able to understand the particularity of God’s past revelation, so as better to envision its realization in the present.
On the other hand, historical criticism’s emphasis on the cultural and linguistic gulf between our world and the ancient world runs the risk of alienating us from Scripture.
What is perhaps the ultimate goal of biblical interpretation?
To create a space in which obedience to divine truth can be practiced, truly practiced in our inner lives, communal lives, and global lives, all of which together are understood as life coram Dei (in God’s presence).
