Description: Reality and Illusion in New Testament Scholarship is a basic introduction to the theory of interpretation and theory of history for New Testament readers, students, and scholars. It offers an entry into the thought of the late, great Bernard Lonergan on insight and judgment, subjectivity and objectivity, horizons and changes of horizon, alienation and ideology. It focuses on what it takes to measure up to the literature of the New Testament.
Brief description: Ben F. Meyer, emeritus of McMaster University, Canada, is the author or editor of a dozen books on the origins of Christianity. His work bears the imprint of the late Bernard Lonergan's ""critical realism"" and of the European tradition of philosophical and historical scholarship. The Liturgical Press has also published his Five Speeches That Changed the World.