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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Two Originalisms, Mark J. Boone
Chapter 1: Originalism: First Theology, First Things, Mark Eckel
Chapter 2: Reading Pictures: Comparing Aesthetic and Hermeneutic Discussions of Intention, Jonathan Johnson
Chapter 3: The Torah Is Not in Heaven: Living Originalism and Political Integrity in the Oven of Akhnai, Daniel Weissglass
Chapter 4: Sacred Scripture, Sacred Constitution: Individual Religious Hermeneutics and Constitutional Interpretation, Nicholas Higgins and Micah Allred
Chapter 5: Originalism and Judicial Restraint: Lessons from the Lutheran Reformation, John Ehrett
Chapter 6: The Originalist Hermeneutic in Biblical and Constitutional Context: Comparing and Contrasting the Notion of Originalism in Two Very Different Fields, Mark A. Snoeberger
Chapter 7: Originalism and the Sources of Authority, Mark J. Boone
Chapter 8: A Difference Between Biblical and Constitutional Originalism, Menashe C. Roberts
Chapter 9: First Theology and Last Things, Mark Eckel
About the Authors
