- Title
- Statutory construction and biblical hermeneutics- law in the service of the gospel?
- Creator
- Foster, Neil
- Relation
- St. Mark's Review: a journal of Christian thought & opinion Vol. 252, p. 106-128
- Publisher
- St. Mark's National Theological Centre
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- I both teach law at an Australian university and have qualifications in theology. While the two sides of my life don't often formally intersect, from time to time in the past, while teaching engineers or prospective safety officers about the principles of interpreting statutes, I have been struck by the connections between the process of statutory interpretation as practiced by courts, and the task of interpreting the Bible. This paper aims, in a very preliminary way, to tease out some of these connections, in order to suggest that a legal background may provide some useful tools for properly handling the word of God.
- Subject
- theology study and teaching; common law; Bible; God
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1438458
- Identifier
- uon:40615
- Identifier
- ISSN:0036-3103
- Language
- eng
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