The Fifth Gospel : Isaiah in the History of Christianity - John F. a. Sawyer

The Fifth Gospel

Isaiah in the History of Christianity

By: John F. a. Sawyer

Paperback | 21 March 1996

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This is a new type of commentary on some of the most familiar language and imagery in the Bible, showing how Isaiah has been used by Christians in all kinds of contexts up to the present. There is much interest in reader-response, the history of interpretation and the sociology of sacred texts--in what the text does as much as what it means. With full documentation and illustrations, Sawyer gives an insight into Isaiah's influence, from the cult of the Virgin Mary and anti-Semitism to Christian feminism and liberation theology.
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... a fascinating work of exploration, so rich that summary is quite impossible. The Expository Times ... John Sawyer writes engagingly, taking the reader on a cultural journey through time and over geographical, literary, gender and subject barriers. Timothy Lim, Church Times Sawyer evidences his skill with exegetical, historical, theological and artisitic dimensions of the text. The reader of his book is invited, with enormous effectiveness, into the interpretive practice of the church, whose imaginative use of the Isaiah text is indeed a dense one. Sawyer illuminates that density in a manner which will enliven our own re-reading of the text, as a church willing to exercise courage, sensitivity and inventiveness in our own time. Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur

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