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Critics Corner: Church and Biblical Scholarship in Dialogue
Jesuit School of Theology
  • Sandra Marie Schneiders, Jesuit School of Theology/Graduate Theological Union
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-1985
Publisher
Sage/Princeton Theological Seminary
Disciplines
Abstract

The scholar attending to the objective distance between ancient text and the modern interpreter and the believer cherishing his or her subjective intimacy with the text are both grounding their approaches in the reality of the text itself, for the text is both ancient artifict and religious classic.

Citation Information
Schneiders, Sandra Marie “Church and Biblical Scholarship in Dialogue.” Theology Today 42 (October 1985): 353-58. Reprinted as “The Church and Biblical Scholarship in Dialogue.” Circuit Rider 18 (September 1994): 5-8.