Timothy J. Furry earned his PhD from the University of Dayton. He is Instructor of Religion and Philosophy and Chaplain at Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School in Bloomfield Hills, MI. While his intellectual interests range widely, his current and primary research aims at retrieving ancient Christian practices of reading Scripture figuratively and allegorically in such a way that is intelligible and persuasive in our contemporary setting. He works across the disciplines of biblical studies, systematic theology, historical theology, and philosophy of history. In addition to past articles, chapters, and books, he has two forthcoming books under contract with Cascade, both centering around Christian figural reading.
This is an absolutely fascinating book. . . . Timothy Furry is
remarkably successful in arguing that the instruments developed by
modern philosophers of history are conditional for doing adequate
justice to the surprising semantic richness of a historical text of
almost thirteen hundred years ago. Furry is to be congratulated for
his having been the first to reveal Bede's real historical
genius.
--Franklin Ankersmit, Professor of Intellectual History and
Historical Theory, University of Groningen Through a disarmingly
engaging study of the Venerable Bede, Furry provides a subtle
Christian apologetic about the nature of history. Taking history
back for legitimate Christian interpretation, Furry steps nimbly
through scriptural exegesis, Augustinian metaphysics, medieval
theology, and contemporary philosophy, despoiling the Egyptians as
he goes. This is a wonderfully creative re-appropriation of the
tradition, which reopens a fertile space for a Christian reading of
the past.
--Ephraim Radner, Professor of Historical Theology, Wycliffe
College at the University of Toronto Few issues are more pressing
today--and more vexed--than the relation of 'history' to scriptural
interpretation. . . . Relying on recent theory that moves us beyond
the stale dualisms of the romantic period, Furry allows us to see
Bede anew as a skillful historian and a faithful theologian. But
this book is not only about Bede. It is also a fresh, hopeful plea
for theological work that returns to first-order questions about
what history is and why it matters.
--Michael Legaspi, Instructor of Religion and Philosophy, Andover
Phillips Academy
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