Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution
Autor Jaroslav Pelikanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 apr 2004
Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of “Great Code,” but each of these important texts is controversial as well as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their authors could not have anticipated on their own. In this book, one of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of constitutional interpretation.
Jaroslav Pelikan compares the methods by which the official interpreters of the Bible and the Constitution—the Christian Church and the Supreme Court, respectively—have approached the necessity of interpreting, and reinterpreting, their important texts. In spite of obvious differences, both texts require close, word-by-word exegesis, an awareness of opinions that have gone before, and a willingness to ask new questions of old codes, Pelikan observes. He probes for answers to the question of what makes something authentically “constitutional” or “biblical,” and he demonstrates how an understanding of either biblical interpretation or constitutional interpretation can illuminate the other in important ways.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300102673
ISBN-10: 0300102674
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300102674
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Recenzii
“. . .a characteristically brilliant and original conceptual overview, one that generations of scholars will need to read—and interpret.”—Christopher Levenick, Claremont Review of Books