Writings

Over the past 11 years, scholars from the various societies of scriptural reasoning have composed an increasing number of essays and books of pertinence to students of scriptural reasoning. These are listed in our bibliography. The best place to view scholarly writings in SR is our own electronic journal, published by the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia. In this section, we offer the following samples of writings that illustrate various subfields of SR:

• "Be Transformed by the Renewing of Your Minds": Scriptural Reasoning and the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Willie Young

• Gathering at the Table for Scripture Study: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue about Jonah Texts Michael G. Cartwright

• The Semiotics of Ayah: A Comparative Introduction Basit Bilal Koshul

• Abrahamic Theo-politics: A Jewish View Peter Ochs

• Returning to Scripture: Trends in Postcritical Interpretation Peter Ochs

• Theological Wisdom, British Style David Ford

• The Third Commandment R. Kendall Soulen, Wesley Theological Seminary

• "Go Tell Pharaoh" Or, Why Empires Prefer a Nameless God R. Kendall Soulen, Wesley Theological Seminary

• Origen and Spiritual Interpretation R.R. Reno, Creighton University

• Scriptural Life after Death in Judaism and Christianity Peter Ochs

• Who Shall I Say Sent Me? The Name of God in Trinitarian Perspective R. Kendall Soulen, Wesley Theological Seminary

• Habermas and Theology, Chapter Eleven: Scriptural Difference and Scriptural Reasoning Nick Adams, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

• Recovering the God of History: Scriptural Life after Death in Judaism and Christianity Peter Ochs, University of Virginia

• Biblical Theology and Theological Exegesis R.R. Reno, Creighton University

The following are addresses from the 2005 inaguration of Iain R. Torrance as president of Princeton Theological Seminary, following the theme "Faith in the New Millenium: Reading Scriptures Together." For more information, visit the Inaugural website.

• Inaugural address (PDF format) Iain R. Torrance, President, Princeton Theological Seminary

• Faith in the Third Millenium: Reading Scriptures Together (PDF format) Peter Ochs, Professor of Modern Judaic Studies University of Virginia

• Faith in the Third Millenium: Reading Scriptures Together (PDF format) David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge University

• Reading Scripture Together: Toward a Sacred Hermeneutics of Togetherness (PDF format) Aref Ali Nayed, Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, Cambridge University