This collection assembles essays by eleven leading Catholic and evangelical theologians in an ecumenical discussion of the benefits and potential drawbacks of today s burgeoning corpus of theological interpretation. The authors explore the critical relationship between the earthly world and its heavenly counterpart. Ground-breaking volume of ecumenical debate featuring Catholic and evangelical theologians Explores the core theological issue of how the material and spiritual worlds interrelate Features a diversity of analytical approaches Addresses an urgent need to distinguish the positive and problematic aspects of today s rapidly growing corpus of theological interpretation

Introduction: Spiritual Interpretation and Realigned Temporality1HANS BOERSMA and MATTHEW LEVERINGPart I--Reading the Fathers 111 "In Many and Various Ways": Towards A Theology ofTheological Exegesis 13BRIAN E. DALEY, SJ2 "There's Fire in That Rain": On Reading theLetter and Reading Allegorically 33LEWIS AYRES3 Origen against History? Reconsidering the Critique of Allegory53PETER W. MARTENS4 "This Is the Day Which the Lord Has Made":Scripture, Manumission, and the Heavenly Future in Saint Gregory ofNyssa 75HANS BOERSMAPart II--Reading Scripture 915 Imperial Lover: The Unveiling of Jesus Christ in Revelation93PETER J. LEITHART6 Translation and Transcendence: The Fragile Future of SpiritualInterpretation 109DAVID LYLE JEFFREY7 Readings on the Rock: Typological Exegesis in ContemporaryScholarship 129MATTHEW LEVERINGPart III--Reading in Contemporary Context 1558 The Self-Critique of the Historical-Critical Method: CardinalRatzinger's Erasmus Lecture 157MICHAEL MARIA WALDSTEIN9 Profi ling Christ: The Psalms of Abandonment 173FRANCESCA A. MURPHY10 Reading the Book of the Church: Bonhoeffer'sChristological Hermeneutics 189JENS ZIMMERMANN11 "Ascending the Mountain, Singing the Rock: BiblicalInterpretation Earthed, Typed, and Transfigured" 207KEVIN J. VANHOOZERIndex 231