I’ve been reading Kevin J. Vanhoozer’s Is There Meaning in This Text? for “leisure” before classes resume. This will be my first real interaction with his written works. Is there anyone out there familiar with Vanhoozer and if so, which book do you recommend I read next?
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Drama of Doctrine. I discovered ITMITT 3 years back and then read Drama, I was so effected by Vanhoozer I went out and read everything he had written up to that point. Then I decided to go to TEDS and what do you know…he leaves for Wheaton. I would love to hear your thoughts in ITMITT when you finish.
Daniel,
That is a bummer! I have had someone tell me I need to read Drama. That may be next.
Brian,
They are significantly different works, but both have been incredibly influential on how I read and do theology.
In his lecture at the recent Wheaton Theology Conference he mentioned Wright ignoring the model of Brevard Childs and early on in ITMITT he talks about canonicity. I am assuming he favors a canonical compositional hermeneutical approach?
Let me add my vote for Drama of Doctrine. I found it to be an extraordinarily helpful book. Also, his recently released Remythologizing Theology is quite good. In this new work, at last, we get a look at his proposal for doing theology in action. It is really hard to go wrong with Vanhoozer, but I think that these two books are more important than First Theology, a collection of essays that mostly address issues discussed at length in his other books.
Brian,
How do you like the book you are currently reading so far?
His paper at the Wheaton Conference was funny! Did not expect him to be like that at all. My prof just told us in class today that he felt like he gave the best critique in terms of how to balance the big conflict between the perceived ecclesiology over soteriology that Wright seems to propose in NPP. I actually didn’t finish it yet so I’m not exactly sure what to think…
Mike,
Thus far I have enjoyed it, but honestly I am only a few dozen pages into it. I have been trying to finish Wright’s ‘After You Believe’ as well as get a foundation for French for my theological French class. No rest for the weary!
I have not listened to all the presentations yet but I would agree thus far that Vanhoozer’s was the best and the most engaging. Hays was good as well.