Antony M I C H A E L Hylton

My latest publication:
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8 book reports on the Bethel Church movement.

Jesus is Lord. My life and work are built on two transformational ideas. Firstly, "Christ died for our sins, he was buried and he rose again on the third day and appeared to a lot of people. Secondly, "I have been crucified with Christ. I live no longer I, Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body I live by the faith of the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." God is love. My studies spring from these roots.  I am a teacher by profession.  We learn a lot when we can place ourselves in the mind of others. It was not enough for me to read in a book that Buddha sat under a bodhi in Northern India and received enlightenment. I wanted to go to Sanat and see for myself the place where Gautama Sakyamuni traditionally got enlightened. We learn so much by physically going there and meeting the people and sensing the atmosphere.
        We can also go there in our imaginations as influenced by books. For me in academic writing, this is the function of the literary review, to see how other scholars are seeing the same data but from their perspective. For example, we are looking at the same Bible, but one sees it through the eyes of ancient history and culture, another sees literary sources, another through the models of social science or anthropology. Another sees the myths and rituals in which the text's oral forms of the words were used before they entered the text.  Indeed everyone is now looking at more or less the same biblical text from every angle that interests them.
            Tate in his Biblical Interpretation lists more than 26 different schools of criticism in looking at the text. Form, Genetic and Traditions criticisms he calls the world behind the text. Formal criticism, Rhetorical criticism, Speech act theory, and Structuralism he calls the world within the text. African American criticism, Cultural criticism, Deconstruction, New Historicism, Post Colonial Criticism, Liberation theology, Reception theory, and Womanist Criticism he calls the word in front of the text.  Ideological, Intertextual, Marxist, Mimetic, Narrative and Socio-Rhetorical criticisms are classified as methods involving more than one world.  These were just the subsidiary methods of approaching the text. The main methods he addresses in his book are Source, Social Scientific, Canonical, Redaction, Literary, Genre, Reader Response, Autobiographical,  and Feminist. He does not mention the subversion criticism or the inner-biblical exegesis. What do all these approaches tell us? Everybody has a perspective on the Bible which they use to try to understand it. Life is rich. 
          I am a teacher. Although I am sure it is done before we need to develop the school of educational criticism.
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