THE LETTER KILLS: ON SOME IMPLICATIONS OF 2 CORINTHIANS 3:6.
The paper focuses on an argument put forward by Augustine in his De doctrina Christiana: there are passages in the Bible that need to be read in a literal, contextual, and ultimately rhetorical perspective. This approach to the Bible (usually overshadowed by Augustine's own parallel emphasis on the...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 71 - 90 |
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