Originalism : first theology, first things / Mark Eckel -- Reading pictures : comparing aesthetic and hermeneutic discussions of intention / Jonathan Johnson -- The Torah is not in heaven : living originalism and political integrity in the oven of Akhnai / Daniel Weissglass -- Sacred scripture, sacred constitution : individual religious hermeneutics and constitutional interpretation / Nicholas Higgins and Micah Allred -- Originalism and judicial restraint : lessons from the Lutheran reformation / John Ehrett -- The originalist hermeneutic in biblical and constitutional context : comparing and contrasting the notion of originalism in two very different fields / Mark A. Snoeberger -- Originalism and the sources of authority / Mark J. Boone -- A difference between biblical and constitutional originalism / Menashe C. Roberts -- First theology and last things / Mark Eckel.
Summary:
"According to originalism, the meaning of a text is determined at the time of its writing. Originalism in Theology and Law explores the similarities and differences between the theological application of this idea to the Bible and its legal application to the American Constitution"-- Provided by publisher.
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