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Hans Boersma holds the J. I. Packer Chair in Theology atRegent College, Canada, and is co-director (with Matthew Levering)of the Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue. As well as thisvolume and a forthcoming publication on Gregory of Nyssa, he is theauthor of Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a SacramentalTapestry (2011), Nouvelle Théologie andSacramental Ontology: A Return to Mystery (2009), andViolence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating theAtonement Tradition (2004). Prof Boersma is a member of theLangley Immanuel Christian Reformed Church. Matthew Levering is Professor of Theology at theUniversity of Dayton, USA, where he is also director of the Centerfor Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine. Co-editor since2003 of the theological journal Nova et Vetera, he has alsorecently joined the editorial team of the International Journalof Systematic Theology. Prof Levering has served as Chair ofthe Board of the Academy of Catholic Theology since 2007 andco-directs the Center for Catholic-Evangelical dialogue alongsideProf Boersma. His numerous books and publications include mostrecently The Feminine Genius of Catholic Theology (2012),Jesus and the Demise of Death (2012), andPredestination (2011). Forthcoming publications includevolumes on St. Paul and Thomas Aquinas and on the theology ofAugustine.

Introduction: Spiritual Interpretation and Realigned Temporality1
HANS BOERSMA and MATTHEW LEVERING

Part I--Reading the Fathers 11

1 "In Many and Various Ways": Towards A Theology ofTheological Exegesis 13
BRIAN E. DALEY, SJ

2 "There's Fire in That Rain": On Reading theLetter and Reading Allegorically 33
LEWIS AYRES

3 Origen against History? Reconsidering the Critique of Allegory53
PETER W. MARTENS

4 "This Is the Day Which the Lord Has Made":Scripture, Manumission, and the Heavenly Future in Saint Gregory ofNyssa 75
HANS BOERSMA

Part II--Reading Scripture 91

5 Imperial Lover: The Unveiling of Jesus Christ in Revelation93
PETER J. LEITHART

6 Translation and Transcendence: The Fragile Future of SpiritualInterpretation 109
DAVID LYLE JEFFREY

7 Readings on the Rock: Typological Exegesis in ContemporaryScholarship 129
MATTHEW LEVERING

Part III--Reading in Contemporary Context 155

8 The Self-Critique of the Historical-Critical Method: CardinalRatzinger's Erasmus Lecture 157
MICHAEL MARIA WALDSTEIN

9 Profi ling Christ: The Psalms of Abandonment 173
FRANCESCA A. MURPHY

10 Reading the Book of the Church: Bonhoeffer'sChristological Hermeneutics 189
JENS ZIMMERMANN

11 "Ascending the Mountain, Singing the Rock: BiblicalInterpretation Earthed, Typed, and Transfigured" 207
KEVIN J. VANHOOZER

Index 231