Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The contexts of theological interpretation -- Spiritual understanding / Henri de Lubac -- The superiority of pre-critical exegesis / David C. Steinmetz -- The story-shaped church : critical exegesis and theological interpretation / George Lindbeck -- Feminist theological hermeneutics : canon and Christian identity / Claudia V. Camp -- The Bible and African Americans : an outline of an interpretative history / Vincent L. Wimbush -- The New Testament and the Nicene dogma : a contribution to the recovery of theological exegesis / David S. Yeago -- Part II. Theological interpretations of select biblical texts -- Selections from Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses / translated and introduced by Joseph W. Trigg -- Selection from Nicholas of Lyra's Commentary on Exodus / translated and introduced by Corrine Patton -- Three postcritical encounters with the burning bush / Peter Ochs -- Exodus 3 : a theological interpretation / Terence E. Fretheim -- Exodus 3 : summons to holy transformation / Walter Brueggemann -- Selections from Theodoret of Cyrus's Commentary on Isaiah / translated and introduced by Angela Russell Christman -- Selections from John Calvin's sermons on Isaiah / translated and introduced by Kathryn Greene-McCreight -- Speech and silence in the servant passages : towards a final-form reading of the Book of Isaiah / Tod Linafelt -- Selections from I, he, we, they : a literary approach to Isaiah 53 / David J.A. Clines -- Engaging metaphors : suffering with Zion and the servant in Isaiah 52-53 / Beverly J. Stratton -- Selections from John Chrysostom's homilies on Matthew / translated and introduced by Robin Darling Young -- Selections from Martin Luther's sermons on the Sermon on the Mount / translated and introduced by Mark S. Burrows -- Righteousness from the inside : the transformative spirituality of the Sermon on the Mount / Brian K. Blount -- Selections from The cost of discipleship / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- The Sermon on the Mount as radical pastoral care / Richard Lischer -- Selections from Augustine's Propositions from the Epistle to the Romans and To Simplician-on various questions / introduced by Peter Gorday -- Selections from Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Romans / translated and introduced by Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. -- Romans 10:4 and the "end" of the law / Paul W. Meyer -- Divine initiative and human response / E. Elizabeth Johnson -- Figure and ground in the interpretation of Romans 9-11 / Neil Elliott.