About the Author

Simon Perry is chaplain of Robinson College, Cambridge. He is a former soldier, a single parent, and author of All Who Came Before (2011).

Reviews

""In this thought-provoking analysis, Simon Perry submits the work of biblical interpreters such as Bultmann, Fish, and Derrida to critical scrutiny, and finds them all wanting. The underlying problem, he suggests, is that they all rely on technology--i.e., they make use of scripture, rather than allowing themselves to be transformed by it. Since the great transformative event is the resurrection, Dr. Perry explores other approaches which begin from the reader's readiness to be transformed by the God encountered in scripture . . . demonstrating just how fruitful it can be to abandon one's presuppositions regarding the 'meaning' of the text, in order to allow it to confront us and to transform us."" --Morna Hooker Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity Emerita University of Cambridge ""Exploding biblical hermeneutics from within, Simon Perry shows us why reading Scripture is best understood as an engagement with a God who claims lives entire. Rigorously engaging the whole sweep of modern hermeneutical philosophy, this book shows how serious biblical theology must finally transmute into theology proper, and of the highest order."" --Brian R. Brock Lecturer in Moral and Practical Theology King's College, University of Aberdeen ""Simon Perry offers a sustained and strong account of the difference that the resurrection of Jesus Christ makes to theological hermeneutics. Biblical interpretation and the practice of discipleship, the world of the text and the real world of human striving and suffering, are inextricably linked in Perry's vision of the interpretative task. Elegantly structured and demanding both intellectually and existentially, Perry's work offers a new voice into the conversation about biblical interpretation today."" --Sean F. Winter Professor of New Testament United Faculty of Theology, Uniting Church Theological College MCD University of Divinity

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