Seeing the World and Knowing God: Hebrew Wisdom and Christian Doctrine in a Late-Modern Context

by Paul S. Fiddes

This book aims to create a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners. The first are writers of the "wisdom literature" in ancient Israel and the Jewish community in Alexandria. Here, special attention is given to the biblical books of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes. The second conversation-partners are philosophers and thinkers of the late-modern age, among them Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198709757
• ISBN13: 9780198709756
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"