TY - BOOK AU - Baker, Matthew, AU - Mourachian, Mark, TI - What is the Bible?: the patristic doctrine of scripture SN - 9781506410746 AV - BT77 .W42 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Minneapolis PB - Fortress Press KW - Orthodo KW - Eastern Church KW - Doctrines KW - Bible KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Fathers of the church, Greek KW - History and criticism. N1 - Includes bibliographical references. ; Part I. Approaches in the Christian East. The exegetical metaphysic of Origen of Alexandria / J. A. McGuckin -- A "doctrine of scripture" from the Eastern Orthodox tradition : a reflection on the Desert Father Saint Sarapion of Thmuis / Oliver Herbel -- "He has clothed himself in our language" : the incarnational hermeneutic of Saint Ephrem the Syrian / Matthew Baker -- John Chrysostom on the nature of revelation and task of exegesis / Bradley Nassif -- Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos on Scripture : voices from the desert in sixth-century Gaza / Alexis Torrance -- The transfiguration of Jesus Christ as "saturated phenomenon" and as a key to the dynamics of biblical revelation in Saint Maximus the Confessor / Paul M. Blowers -- Scripture as divine mystery: the Bible in the Philokalia / Brock Bingaman -- Part II. Modern approaches inspired by the Fathers. The Bible as Heilsgeschichte : the basic axis and scope of Georges Florovsky's neopatristic synthesis / Nikolaos Asproulis --The Gospel according to Saint Justin the New : Justin Popović on scripture / Vladimir Cvetkovic -- Reality and biblical interpretation : T.F. Torrance's retrieval of patristic hermeneutics / John Taylor Carr -- Merely academic : a brief history of modern biblical criticism / Michael C. Legaspi. ER -