Reimagining America: A Theological Critique of the American Mythos and Biblical HermeneuticsMercer University Press, 1985 - 151 sidor "'The American character," Charles Mabee writes, "is grounded in the metaphor of universal scientific and technological experiment," an experiment in which some may see God at work and others may not. Americans are a "religious" people, but they are also "scientific." Both theologicans and scientists must confront the antagonism between the "particularistic" world view inherited from the Judeo-Christian tradition and the "fundamentally universal orientation" of science. Modern study of the Bible, grounded in "scientific method," has liberated the text from the imperatives of ecclesiastical dogma; it's practitioners "have constructed elaborate safeguards against subjective interpretation." Yet the subjective component of biblical study remains - " only now the name of this component is science itself . . ." -- Book jacket. |
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Ahab Ahab's American civil religion American experience American mythos American religious Autobiography begins Bellah Bercovitch Bible biblical hermeneutics biblical texts Book of Job Book of Jonah canonical Captain Ahab Christian chronological church concept context covenant criticism culture dialogue dislocation displacement dogmatic ecclesiastical Elihu emergence environment established exegesis exegetical existence faith Franklin friends fundamental future ghost God's Gospels Herman Melville historical historicity of Jesus human immediacy insight intellectual interpretation Ishmael Israel Jefferson Job's hermeneutics Kingdom literary Luke Mead meaning Melville Melville's meneutical mission Moby-Dick Morals of Jesus nature Old Testament orthodoxy parables particular past perspective Phaedrus Phaedrus's Pharisees philosophical Pirsig present priests problem Puritan Quality Queequeg quest rationality reality relationship rhetoric Robert Pirsig sacred scientific sense simply speeches stands Starbuck story symbolizes teachings technological theologians theological theophany thought tion traditional theology transcends truth typology ultimately understanding University Western whale Yahweh
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Sida 27 - England: for we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us...
Sida 54 - I was now and then prevail'd on to do so, once for five Sundays successively. Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study ; but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their aim seeming to be rather...
Sida 102 - Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
Sida 58 - The plain Truth of the Matter is, I am excessive poor, and my Wife, good Woman, is, I tell her, excessive proud; she cannot bear, she says, to sit spinning in her Shift of Tow, while I do nothing but gaze at the Stars; and has...
Sida 53 - Presbyterian ; and tho' some of the dogmas of that persuasion, such as the eternal decrees of God, election* reprobation, etc., appeared to me unintelligible, others doubtful, and I early absented myself from the public assemblies of the sect, Sunday being my studying day, I never was without some religious principles. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity ; that he made the world, and...
Sida 134 - Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; 21 nor will they say, 'Lo, here it is!' or 'There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst oF you.
Sida 80 - I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presbyterian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolater in worshipping his piece of wood? But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?— to do the will of God?
Sida 134 - But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Sida 80 - Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him in his; ergo, I must turn idolator.
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