The Literary Quality of Scripture as Seen by the Early Church
Abstrak
Christians in the first five centuries of the church lived in an environment that placed a high value on literary and rhetorical expression. Within this context, cultured critics of Christianity often disparaged the literary style of the Christian Bible in its Greek and Latin forms. The most common response in the first Christian centuries was to concede Scripture’s simple style but to assert the superiority of its divine content. But eventually Christians began to suggest paradigms for seeing artistic crafting in the biblical text. One stream of thought, exemplified by Jerome, looked to the original language of the Old Testament to discover the literary quality of Scripture. Another stream of thought, developed by Augustine, explored the literary quality of Scripture by reflecting on the relationship between human conventions and divine inspiration.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Michael Graves
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2010
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.53751/001c.29284
- Akses
- Open Access ✓