Theology and Scriptural Imagination

James J. Buckley is Professor of Theology at Loyola College in Maryland. He is the author of Seeking the Humanity of God. Professors Jones and Buckley are the editors of Modern Theology and the General Editors of the series Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology. L. Gregory Jones is Professor at Duke University Divinity School. He is the author of three books, including most recently Embodying Forgiveness.

• Editorial Introduction. 1. Imagining the World Scripture Imagines: Luke Timothy Johnson (Emory University).2. Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Christian Identity in Boyarin: John David Dawson (Haverford College).3. In Defence of Allegory: Robert Louis Wilken (University of Charlottesville).4.'We are Companions of the Patriarchs' or Scripture Absorbs Calvin's World: Kathryn Green-McCreight (New Haven).5.'Is There a (Non-sexist) Bible in This Church?' A Feminist Case for Interpretive Communities: Mary Mclintock-Fulkerson (Duke Divinity School).6. Two (Or More) Kinds of Scripture Scholarship: Alvin Plantinga (University of Notre Dame).7. Scripture as Popular Text: Kathryn Tanner (University of Chicago).