Allegorizing History
Timothy J. Furry
(Author)
Description
About the Contributor(s): Timothy J. Furry (PhD, University of Dayton) is Instructor of Religion and Philosophy and Chaplain at Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He is coeditor of Ecclesiology and Exclusion (2012) and author of multiple theological essays, book chapters, and reviews.
Product Details
Price
$26.00
Publisher
Pickwick Publications
Publish Date
August 21, 2013
Pages
174
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.9 X 0.5 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781620326565
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About the Author
Timothy J. Furry earned his PhD from the University of Dayton. He is Instructor of Religion and Philosophy and Chaplain at Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School in Bloomfield Hills, MI. While his intellectual interests range widely, his current and primary research aims at retrieving ancient Christian practices of reading Scripture figuratively and allegorically in such a way that is intelligible and persuasive in our contemporary setting. He works across the disciplines of biblical studies, systematic theology, historical theology, and philosophy of history. In addition to past articles, chapters, and books, he has two forthcoming books under contract with Cascade, both centering around Christian figural reading.
Reviews
This is an absolutely fascinating book. . . . Timothy Furry is remarkably successful in arguing that the instruments developed by modern philosophers of history are conditional for doing adequate justice to the surprising semantic richness of a historical text of almost thirteen hundred years ago. Furry is to be congratulated for his having been the first to reveal Bede's real historical genius.
--Franklin Ankersmit, Professor of Intellectual History and Historical Theory, University of Groningen Through a disarmingly engaging study of the Venerable Bede, Furry provides a subtle Christian apologetic about the nature of history. Taking history back for legitimate Christian interpretation, Furry steps nimbly through scriptural exegesis, Augustinian metaphysics, medieval theology, and contemporary philosophy, despoiling the Egyptians as he goes. This is a wonderfully creative re-appropriation of the tradition, which reopens a fertile space for a Christian reading of the past.
--Ephraim Radner, Professor of Historical Theology, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto Few issues are more pressing today--and more vexed--than the relation of 'history' to scriptural interpretation. . . . Relying on recent theory that moves us beyond the stale dualisms of the romantic period, Furry allows us to see Bede anew as a skillful historian and a faithful theologian. But this book is not only about Bede. It is also a fresh, hopeful plea for theological work that returns to first-order questions about what history is and why it matters.
--Michael Legaspi, Instructor of Religion and Philosophy, Andover Phillips Academy
--Franklin Ankersmit, Professor of Intellectual History and Historical Theory, University of Groningen Through a disarmingly engaging study of the Venerable Bede, Furry provides a subtle Christian apologetic about the nature of history. Taking history back for legitimate Christian interpretation, Furry steps nimbly through scriptural exegesis, Augustinian metaphysics, medieval theology, and contemporary philosophy, despoiling the Egyptians as he goes. This is a wonderfully creative re-appropriation of the tradition, which reopens a fertile space for a Christian reading of the past.
--Ephraim Radner, Professor of Historical Theology, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto Few issues are more pressing today--and more vexed--than the relation of 'history' to scriptural interpretation. . . . Relying on recent theory that moves us beyond the stale dualisms of the romantic period, Furry allows us to see Bede anew as a skillful historian and a faithful theologian. But this book is not only about Bede. It is also a fresh, hopeful plea for theological work that returns to first-order questions about what history is and why it matters.
--Michael Legaspi, Instructor of Religion and Philosophy, Andover Phillips Academy
