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Allegorizing History: The Venerable Bede, Figural Exegesis, and Historical Theory

Allegorizing History: The Venerable Bede, Figural Exegesis, and Historical Theory

Furry, Timothy J.

Paperback

General ChristianityHistoriography

ISBN10: 0227174240
ISBN13: 9780227174241
Publisher: James Clarke Co
Published: May 29 2014
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
How the interplay between historiography and theology in the Venerable Bede's work impact Christian understanding of history.

What is history and how does it impact upon biblical interpretation and theology? 'Allegorizing History' seeks to answer this question by arguing that conceptions of the past and the purposes of history impact upon biblical interpretation and vice versa. Invoking Constantin Fasolt's notion of history as 'a knowledge of the past, as well as the technique by which such knowledge is produced', and re-fashioning Erich Auerbach's historical enterprise in Figura (1938), Furry contends that the understanding and practice of historical writing is inevitably affected by philosophy and theology, thereby rendering all history as figural or allegorical. Famous for his Ecclesiastical History of the Anglo-Saxon People and biblical commentaries, the Venerable Bede is studied in dialogue with Augustine, contemporary theology, and historical theory to make this interdisciplinary argument.

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