Reading Faithfully - Volume One

Foreword by George Hunsinger Acknowledgments Editorial Introduction Abbreviations Approximate Chronological Listing of Pieces Part I: Letters 1 Letter to Dr. Larry K. Nelson, August 14, 1973 2 Letter to Elsabeth S. Hilke, August 5, 1974 3 Letter to D. Cameron Murchison Jr., Late 1974 4 Letter to Leander Keck, May 22, 1975 5 Letter to John Woolverton, July 7, 1975 6 Letter to Professor Ray L. Hart, January 12, 1976 7 Letter to William Placher, March 24, 1976 8 Letter to Van Harvey, June 22, 1976 9 Letter to Dennis Nineham, July 1, 1976 10 Letter to John Woolverton, April 26, 1978 11 Letter to Julian Hartt, August 19, 1981 12 Letter to Gary Comstock, November 5, 1984 13 Letter to William Placher, November 3, 1986 Part II: Hermeneutics 1 Scripture as Realistic Narrative 2 Review of James Barr, The Bible in the Modern World 3 On Interpreting the Christian Story 4 Historical Reference and the Gospels 5 The Specificity of Reference Part III: Theology 1 The Place of Theology in the Liberal Arts Curriculum 2 Saint, Sinner, and Pilgrim 3 Is Religious Sensibility Accessible to Study? 4 History, Salvation-History, and Typology 5 God's Patience and Our Work 6 Reinhold Niebuhr, Where Are You Now That We Need You? 7 Of the Going Down of Christ into Hell 8 Of the Resurrection of Christ 9 Of the Holy Ghost 10 On Priesthood, the Past, and Peace Afterword: Hans Frei, Scripture, Reading, and the Rhetoric of Theology by John Webster Bibliography