- The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- ‘Anglicanism’ before the Reformation
- The Reformation in Anglicanism
- Anglican Conciliarism: The Lambeth Conference as an Instrument of Communion
- Mission in the Anglican Communion
- Identities and Parties
- Varieties of Missionary Bishop
- Anglicanism and the Fathers
- Prayer Book Use and Conformity
- Anglican Wisdom
- Anglican Spirituality
- Anglican Aesthetics
- Considering Hermeneutics, Method, and Cultural Diversity in Anglican and Episcopal Contexts
- The North American Innovations
- ‘Home Away From Home’: Displacement, Identity, and Anglican Ecclesiology in Australasia
- Sri Lanka
- West Africa
- ‘God has come Amongst us Slowly and we didn’t Realise it!’ The Transformation of Anglican Missionary Heritage in Sudan
- Sheng Kung Hui: The Contextualization of Anglicanism in Hong Kong
- The Geography of Anglicanism
- Establishment
- Charismatic Renewal
- Anglicanism and Pan-Evangelicalism
- Indigenous Peoples: A Case Study on being a Twenty-First-Century Maori Anglican
- Ecumenism and Post-Anglicanism, Transnational Anglican Compactism, and Cosmo-transAnglicanism
- The Bible
- Politics
- Doctrine
- Gender
- Sexuality and Communion
- An Untidy Generosity: Anglicans and the Challenge of other Religions
- Episcopé and Leadership
- Ecumenism
- Congregational Life
- Context, Character, and Challenges: The Shaping of Ordination Training
- Mission
- Prayer
- Canon Law
- Race, Spirituality, and Reconciliation
- Moving the Anglican Communion: Ethics and Ecclesiology in an Age of Migration
- Biblical Hermeneutics in the Context of Post-Anglicanism: Beyond Pax Anglicana
- Anglican Relations with Islam
- Authority, Theology, and Power
- Anglican Way or Ways?
- Anglican Interpretations of Scripture: Can Scriptural Reasoning Provide a Way Forward?
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
From the time of the Reformation, the Bible has always been among the primary sources for Anglicanism. Through a close study of biblical hermeneutics, this chapter reflects on how ‘scripture’ has been located among the other primary sources, tradition, and reason, at various stages and in different places within Anglican history. The chapter then goes on to argue that context ought to be considered a fourth primary source for Anglicanism. Drawing on postcolonial Anglican biblical interpretation and the experience of various stages of imperial expansion, particularly from a Southern African Anglican context, the chapter analyses how context reconfigures the other three primary sources.
Keywords: Southern African Anglicanism, imperialism, African biblical hermeneutics, scripture, tradition, reason, context
Gerald West is Professor of Old Testament and African Biblical Hermeneutics in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is also involved in the community-based work of the Ujamaa Centre, which provides an interface between the academy and local communities.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- ‘Anglicanism’ before the Reformation
- The Reformation in Anglicanism
- Anglican Conciliarism: The Lambeth Conference as an Instrument of Communion
- Mission in the Anglican Communion
- Identities and Parties
- Varieties of Missionary Bishop
- Anglicanism and the Fathers
- Prayer Book Use and Conformity
- Anglican Wisdom
- Anglican Spirituality
- Anglican Aesthetics
- Considering Hermeneutics, Method, and Cultural Diversity in Anglican and Episcopal Contexts
- The North American Innovations
- ‘Home Away From Home’: Displacement, Identity, and Anglican Ecclesiology in Australasia
- Sri Lanka
- West Africa
- ‘God has come Amongst us Slowly and we didn’t Realise it!’ The Transformation of Anglican Missionary Heritage in Sudan
- Sheng Kung Hui: The Contextualization of Anglicanism in Hong Kong
- The Geography of Anglicanism
- Establishment
- Charismatic Renewal
- Anglicanism and Pan-Evangelicalism
- Indigenous Peoples: A Case Study on being a Twenty-First-Century Maori Anglican
- Ecumenism and Post-Anglicanism, Transnational Anglican Compactism, and Cosmo-transAnglicanism
- The Bible
- Politics
- Doctrine
- Gender
- Sexuality and Communion
- An Untidy Generosity: Anglicans and the Challenge of other Religions
- Episcopé and Leadership
- Ecumenism
- Congregational Life
- Context, Character, and Challenges: The Shaping of Ordination Training
- Mission
- Prayer
- Canon Law
- Race, Spirituality, and Reconciliation
- Moving the Anglican Communion: Ethics and Ecclesiology in an Age of Migration
- Biblical Hermeneutics in the Context of Post-Anglicanism: Beyond Pax Anglicana
- Anglican Relations with Islam
- Authority, Theology, and Power
- Anglican Way or Ways?
- Anglican Interpretations of Scripture: Can Scriptural Reasoning Provide a Way Forward?
- Index