Scriptural Interpretation

Darren Sarisky is a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. He previously served as a Teaching Associate in Doctrine at the University of Cambridge Divinity Faculty. Dr Sarisky’s primary area of research is the nature and interpretation of Christian Scripture.

• Preface and Acknowledgments ix Editions and Translations xiiAbbreviations xvIntroduction 1Part I: Basil of Caesarea 6Part II: Contemporary and Constructive Theology 27Summary of the Argument 33Part I Basil of Caesarea 351 The Reader – A Little Lower than the Angels 37Angels: Perfect upon Creation 38Humanity: Perfected over Time 422 The Text – Scriptural Paideia 71Anthropological Context 72Revelation 74Theological Account of Scripture 77The Utility of Scripture 853 Reading – Eschatological Interpretation 90Theological Analysis of Reading 92The End of Reading 1044 Ecclesial Setting – Exegesis and Ecclesial Dogma 111A Concise History of Reception for De Spiritu Sancto 27 113Background to De Spiritu Sancto: The Notion of Craft 114A Reading of De Spiritu Sancto 27 117Conclusion to Part I: Basil’s Theological Account of Scriptural Interpretation 129Part II Contemporary and Constructive Theology 133Introduction to Part II: The Contemporary Debate 1355 The Reader – Restoring a Sense of the End 140The Critique of Modernity 141Narrative and Human Nature 1456 The Text – Scripture in the Flow of Time 159Revelation and Generativity 161A Text in Time 1627 Reading – Interpretation and the Time of Learning 173Reading as Shaped by Models of Scripture 174The Contour of the Time of Learning 1768 Ecclesial Setting – Practices Performed in Community 184The Ecclesial Framework 187Interpretation Situated in a Web of Practices 1899 A Constructive Account of Scriptural Interpretation 201Reader 205Text 212Reading 217Ecclesial Setting 224Conclusion 234Bibliography 245Index 265

"Happily, we are well served by Sarisky's excellent compilation of Modern Readings.... Each reading has a good editorial introduction, in which Sarisky helpfully contextualizes the writer and the chosen extract. He also poses some questions to consider in the course of reading."—Walter Moberly, Reviews in Religion and Theology, 2 April 2017