dc.creator | Dault, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T21:24:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-04-02 | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-04-02 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-03232009-205641 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11105 | |
dc.description.abstract | This project utilizes cultural materialist methodologies to examine the doctrine of Scripture as it pertains to post-20th Century North American theologians. The dissertation puts forth the thesis that such theologians ignore the physical aspects of printed Bibles, preferring to refer instead to a reified and abstract notion of “Scripture.” As a result, additions by publishers such as footnotes, editorial addenda, marginalia and other “paratextual effects” function, for the theologian and lay reader alike, as a “covert Magisterium,” which shapes the reader’s interpretation and understanding of the text. This dissertation presents contemporary American theologians with a methodology for examining these covert influences, and exhorts them to respond to the ethical challenge posed by the presence of such covert ideological influences in printed versions Scripture. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | scripture | |
dc.subject | magisterium | |
dc.subject | theology | |
dc.subject | Bible | |
dc.subject | church authority | |
dc.subject | textuality | |
dc.subject | material religion | |
dc.subject | material scripture | |
dc.subject | sola scriptura | |
dc.subject | scriptural reasoning | |
dc.subject | david kelsey | |
dc.subject | peter ochs | |
dc.subject | nicholas wolterstorff | |
dc.subject | printed Bibles | |
dc.subject | printing | |
dc.subject | physical scripture | |
dc.title | The Covert Magisterium: Theology, Textuality and the Question of Scripture | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | M. Douglas Meeks | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Patout Burns | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | William Franke | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Leonard Greenspoon | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Religion | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2011-04-02 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2011-04-02 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Paul J. DeHart | |