Theology, Politics, and Exegesis

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Theology, Politics, and Exegesis is written by Jeffrey L. Morrow and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1532614926 (ISBN 10) and 9781532614927 (ISBN 13).

Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores biblical scholarship from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries and then discusses its new place in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century where such scholarship would flourish. Far from merely an objective and neutral method, such scholarship was never without philosophical, theological, and political underpinnings. Morrow concludes the volume with a look at the separation of biblical studies from theology, using the example of Catholic moral theology in the twentieth century.