Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D. in Theology)--University of Dayton, 2011 under title: From past to present and beyond : the Venerable Bede, figural exegesis, and historical theory. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-157) and index.
Contents:
(Re)framing history : a contemporary historiography of Bede's Historia -- Can history be figural? : a study of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and De templo -- Interpreting Genesis : creation and the relationship between the literal and figural senses -- Anachronism and the status of the past in Bede's Historia and figural exegesis -- Bede and Frank Ankersmit : the inevitability of figural history.
Series:
Distinguished dissertations in Christian theology ; 10
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