Searching for Meaning: An Introduction to Interpreting the New Testament

by Paula Gooder

A concise one-volume overview of approaches to New Testament interpretation.

Genres: Theology

258 pages, Paperback

First published September 18, 2008

About the author

Paula Gooder is a speaker and writer on the Bible, particularly on the New Testament. She began her working life, teaching for twelve years in ministerial formation first at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford and then at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. Following this she spent around eight years as a speaker and writer in biblical studies travelling the country and seeking to communicate the best of biblical scholarship in as accessible a way as possible, after that she spent six years working for the Bible Society as their Theologian in Residence and then for the Birmingham Diocese as their Director of Mission Learning and Development. She is currently the Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral in London.

Reviews

[An Te · Rating 4 out of 5]

A carefully chosen band of theologians and commentators make for an interesting cross-section of all that the study of biblical hermeneutics has to offer. My personal favourites are Asian criticism, ecological criticism, socio-political criticism and reception history. However, they are all important to use. Some are stances, other are tools. But they are all possible means for the endeavour of a constructive and life-affirming interpretation of the biblical texts. I imagine new tools being added to the hermeneutical inventory as time goes on. It's a most exciting field indeed.