Interpreting the Bible & the Constitution [[electronic resource] /] / Jaroslav Pelikan

• Autore: Pelikan Jaroslav <1923-2006.>
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 216 p.))
• Disciplina: 220.6/01
• Soggetto topico: Constitutional law - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: "A John W. Kluge Center book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-206) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Normative Scripture-Christian and American -- 2. Cruxes of Interpretation in the Bible and in the Constitution -- 3. The Sensus Literalis and the Quest for Original Intent -- 4. Development of Doctrine: Patterns and Criteria -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of "Great Code," but each of these important texts is controversial as well as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their authors could not have anticipated on their own. In this book, one of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of constitutional interpretation. Jaroslav Pelikan compares the methods by which the official interpreters of the Bible and the Constitution-the Christian Church and the Supreme Court, respectively-have approached the necessity of interpreting, and reinterpreting, their important texts. In spite of obvious differences, both texts require close, word-by-word exegesis, an awareness of opinions that have gone before, and a willingness to ask new questions of old codes, Pelikan observes. He probes for answers to the question of what makes something authentically "constitutional" or "biblical," and he demonstrates how an understanding of either biblical interpretation or constitutional interpretation can illuminate the other in important ways.
• Altri titoli varianti: Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution
• Titolo autorizzato: Interpreting the Bible & the Constitution
• ISBN: 1-281-73088-2; 9786611730888; 0-300-13076-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452324603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II